Posted on 10/24/2018 5:35:05 AM PDT by Logicbox
When I was growing up, I always found myself feeling engrossed in my own widely absent mind. I was there, but only in body. My mind was elsewhere. Always deeply absorbed in the music I was listening to.
I guess that’s something that hasn’t vastly altered much about me. I did, however, find my mind sometimes harder to manipulate with music. Not often, but enough. That’s the thing with mental illness though. Specifically, depression. It has a surprising and tedious way of making the things you love and find comfort in abundant.
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To summarize, use high quality headphones (like Sennheiser) rather than mass produced garbage and your listening experience will improve greatly. Not exactly breaking news, but ok.
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As someone who has been through bleak periods of depression, I think it is incorrect to call it "mental illness" though it is certainly a "disorder."
Jung called it a "symptom" of something going on (going wrong) at a deeper level that needs to be addressed.
In the case of a bipolar person, what needs to be addressed is the mania that, once it burns out, leaves the patient, well, burned out.
Furthermore, I think most people who suffer through depression would say that it numbs them and does not make things you love and find comfort in "abundant."
Quite the contrary.
I have old Gospel music for those moments
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His Wonderful Face
And the things of earth will look strangely dim
In the Light of His Glory and Grace
Add a good amp and hd music ...
good post. thank you.
Yup, good amp is a must too. I miss the days of big audio shops (primarily the ‘70s) with seemingly acres of high quality gear from Marantz, McIntosh, JBL, Acoustic Research, Ampex, Thorens, etc. Great fidelity was the norm back then, and what most consumers were after. Nowadays it’s all about convenience.
You forgot Yamaha. Yamaha CA-810 amp and CT-810 tuner. I still have mine. Made in Japan with wooden cabinet work and signed inside by the guy who built it. And let's not forget the YP-211 turntable with an Ortofon FF-15xe cartridge. 70's vintage and sounds so sweet.
Real nice. Yamaha made excellent gear back then, as did the other big Japanese manufactures (Sansui, Pioneer, Kenwood). Alas, that era is long gone.
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