![]() Just that blood flow and oxygen throughout the body, that helps out exponentially when you're talking about mental health. I work out a lot and physical fitness is a big part of my existence, which again, being physical, being active, being motivated that helps this up here (points to head) a lot. All of a sudden, you forgot what you were angry about or you forgot why you were in a bad mood and all of a sudden you're back in the game. Smith continued: “I wake up every day and am so thankful for songs and for all the different styles of music because you can wake up in the worst mood or you can be having a rough day and, I tell you what, a song will come on when you least expect it when you need it the most and it will just arrive. “Listen, I know people are gonna (read) this and they're gonna have their opinion and they may be like, ‘why, I do that!’ You may want to look at yourself and ask yourself, ‘do you really feel like that or is there something there that you need to address?’ Maybe there are some things you might need to unpack and address.”Īlthough social media can have an adverse effect on mental health, Brent Smith was keen to extol the virtues of listening to music and insisted that “music is medicine.” Sometimes that's what we call ‘fake positivity.’ That's not good. ![]() Like #blessedlife, #livelife, that for me when I see that, I’m like ‘that’s a warning sign.’ Because it's not real. Returning to the subject later in the chat, Smith said: “I think that there are warning signs when you see… like #blessed that’s a warning sign. Shinedown's Brent Smith at Download Festival People don't need to feel embarrassed or ashamed because they're having issues with the way that they feel.” NAMPA, IDAHO - SEPTEMBER 25: Brent Smith singer from Shinedown puts out the. “So more than anything, what we've always tried to do is explain that it's okay to ask for help first of all. LOS ANGELES - APR 3: Brent Smith at the iHeart Radio Music Awards 2016 Arrivals. We've learned through the last 20 years… and I have done a tonne of research, I've talked to a lot of different people in the medical community that are in psychology, different activists, different people that are really trying to look at the development, especially with the youth and how kids are growing up these days and how that's going to affect their adulthood in regards to all of this social media and that everything is on display. “That's one thing that we do try to explain to people like ‘look, you're still responsible for who you are and what you do.’ But the fact of the matter is, mental health for the longest time was stigmatised as the person who's trying to get attention or there's not really anything wrong, they just want to gripe, or they want to complain or (make) excuses. So that can really mess with you if you let it and it's just being responsible for yourself. You have to also understand that if you're going to be on these social networks, if you're going to be on these platforms and what have you, there's going to be an amount of scrutiny. It’s called a Smoking Gun.’ And then walked out of the room.“What I mean by that is you got to remember you're in control of your device, and you have to make a conscious decision… what you are capable of understanding, how you look at your own mental health and what have you. “And I said, ‘Oh, I was just having to handle my business in there.’ So he walks over to the deli area, like craft services in the room, he then proceeds to – on the deli tray – urinate on the deli tray and take a rolled up piece of turkey, and rolled it up and put it in the center took his cigarette, stuck it in the top of the turkey, handed me the deli tray with urine and said, ‘Here, give this to your tour manager. He’s like, ‘Hey where’s Brent?’ And ‘He’s in the bathroom.’ So I come out of the bathroom, I’m like ‘ Eddie, what’s up?’ I didn’t dry my hands all the way, so I gave him a high-five, and he’s like ‘Oh dude, what?!’ ![]() “There’s this one day he comes into the dressing room, and I hear him come in – I’m in the bathroom and I’m washing my hands. Eddie never wore a shirt, he was always wearing camo pants and combat boots, he always had his guitar around him, and he was always smoking a cigarette he would drink Yellow Tail wine, so he would always have purple around his lips. ![]() ![]() “ Eddie would always come in everyday around five o’clock flew private everywhere, so they would come in around five o’clock. But, if I’m gonna be honest about what I remember from this tour – which is probably one of the most incendiary rock and roll moments of all time. And overtime, in this tour, me and Eddie just developed a friendship one of the sweetest and most amazing human beings on the planet. "On the first record, we got an opportunity of a lifetime to do two months with Van Halen. ![]()
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