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Survivor Songs -- Trigger warning

ohanasystem August 2nd, 2017

Hope this is the right part to post this. I'm just wondering what survivor songs you all know & listen to. I want to compile a traumatic experiences playlist. It'd be awesome if you could share information about what the song represents to you/what sort of survivorship it's about, too.

For me, one of my favourites is Ten Shekel Shirt's "Fragile", where the line "it's not your fault" features quite prominently. The lyrics aren't exceptionally graphic, but the video clip could be very triggering for a number of different types of trauma survivors.

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HopieRemi August 3rd, 2017

@ohanasystem

I love this and I might come back later with songs in links. But I do want to say I go to a lot of the songs by Evanescence

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ohanasystem OP August 6th, 2017

@BurningEmber
Oooh, yes, definitely! Evanescence have a lot of songs that I relate back to traumatic experiences and the like. Thank you! Please do feel free to come back and add more any time, as many as you like, or just a few, whatever works for you! :)

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HopieRemi August 6th, 2017

@ohanasystem

A song I particularly identify with is a song by Casting Crowns, Does anybody hear her. You can take a listen here

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BeeLeigh August 6th, 2017

@BurningEmber

I love that song!

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HopieRemi August 6th, 2017

@BeeLeigh

its an amazing song!

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BeeLeigh August 4th, 2017

There's actually a thread for this somewhere. I'll tag you in it when I find it :)

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HopieRemi August 4th, 2017

@BeeLeigh

Thank you for being so helpful!

ohanasystem OP August 6th, 2017

@BeeLeigh
Thank you, and thank you for the tag! It's definitely similar, but I'm looking particularly for any songs about being a survivor of traumatic experiences, rather than specifically the uplifting ones. That's definitely a brilliant thread, though, and I'll be nabbing some songs off it, and adding my own, as well! <3

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naturalPeace83 August 4th, 2017

@ohanasystem

Scars To your Beautiful by Alessia Caraheart that's one of my favorites (says it in my profile lol)

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ohanasystem OP August 6th, 2017

@naturalPeace83
Thank you so much for suggesting that song! It's beautiful and I'd never heard it before. :heart:

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naturalPeace83 August 6th, 2017

@ohanasystem

Glad you liked it!!! heartsmiley hope it helps!! You can always message me if you need some extra supportwink

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Kate August 7th, 2017

I can really identify with Hurt by Christina Aguilera. It says a lot about my relationship with my father who died by suicide.

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HopieRemi August 9th, 2017

@lovelyllama13

I love that song!

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Rain45 August 8th, 2017

@ohanasystem Just as an idea. you know we have the trauma video event running currently....Please see this link for details....how about one or all of you who have posted these songs here, put these together, with some images, video or slides to send a submission in for the video that is being put together by and for the trauma community. You may like to consider doing something like this and the submissions are open until just before midnight this friday!! https://www.7cups.com/forum/TraumaticExperiencesCommunity_60/TraumaticExperiencesCommunityCreativeExpressionsCorner_1170/TraumaCommunityVideoEvent_78024/

NICK1399 April 25th, 2018

Does anyone else get triggered by songs??? I feel suffocated when I listen to some songs, particularly evanascence. I always relapse (self-harm) but I can't resist listening to them.

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SugarMoon34 August 1st, 2018

@NICK1399 i have a few songs that trigger me. My daughter was still born and i had Chasing Cars played at her funeral....now everytime i hear it I get flashbacks and just go to a very very low place. The other major one that does is it Iris by the googoo dolls, 'And I'd give up forever to touch you, 'Cause I know that you feel me somehow, You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be'......

then there are all the songs that played on the radio at hopsital etc etc.....i actually have so many trigger songs its ridicuolous

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roseMelody95 May 6th, 2018

A good one that comes to mind, for me, is: I Will Survive - by Gloria Gaynor (1978)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYkACVDFmeg

LoveFromSara July 1st, 2018

Hm, maybe time to revive this thread? I love music, and there are a lot of good lyrics out there, some really hits you, even though its rarley a 100% match with your own experience

But here goes:

Alive - by Sia

I was born in a thunderstorm
I grew up overnight
I played alone
I played on my own
I survived

Hey
I wanted everything I never had
Like the love that comes with light
I wore envy and I hated that
But I survived

I had a one-way ticket to a place where all the demons go
Where the wind don't change
And nothing in the ground can ever grow
No hope, just lies
And you're taught to cry into your pillow
But I survived

I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing
I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing
I'm alive
I'm alive
I'm alive
I'm alive

I found solace in the strangest place
Way in the back of my mind
I saw my life in a stranger's face
And it was mine

I had a one-way ticket to a place where all the demons go
Where the wind don't change
And nothing in the ground can ever grow
No hope, just lies
And you're taught to cry into your pillow
But I survived

I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing
I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing
I'm alive
I'm alive
I'm alive
I'm alive

You took it all, but I'm still breathing
You took it all, but I'm still breathing
You took it all, but I'm still breathing
You took it all, but I'm still breathing
You took it all, but I'm still breathing
You took it all, but I'm still breathing
You took it all, but I'm still breathing
You took it all, but I'm still breathing

I have made every single mistake
That you could ever possibly make
I took and I took and I took what you gave
But you never noticed that I was in pain
I knew what I wanted; I went in and got it
Did all the things that you said that I wouldn't
I told you that I would never be forgotten
And all in spite of you

And I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing
I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing
I'm alive (You took it all, but I'm still breathing)
(You took it all, but I'm still breathing)
I'm alive (You took it all, but I'm still breathing)
(You took it all, but I'm still breathing)
I'm alive (You took it all, but I'm still breathing)
(You took it all, but I'm still breathing)
I'm alive

I'm alive
I'm alive
I'm alive
I'm alive

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Butterflee May 31st, 2019

@LoveFromSara oh this is too much...

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indigoBeing9907 July 20th, 2018

Better Days

Goo Goo Dolls

And you asked me what I want this year
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
'Cause I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And designer love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days

So take these words and sing out loud
'Cause everyone is forgiven now
'Cause tonight's the night the world begins again

I need some place simple where we could live
And something only you can give
And that's faith and trust and peace while we're alive
And the one poor child who saved this world
And there's ten million more who probably could
If we all just stopped and said a prayer for them

So take these words and sing out loud
'Cause everyone is forgiven now
'Cause tonight's…

summertimeSamness July 28th, 2018

Rise Up by Andra Day is one of my most favorite positive recovery songs

here's a sneak peek at the lyrics:

You're broken down and tired
Of living life on a merry go round
And you can't find the fighter
But I see it in you so we gonna walk it out
And move mountains
We gonna walk it out

And move mountains

And I'll rise up
I'll rise like the day
I'll rise up
I'll rise unafraid
I'll rise up
And I'll do it a thousand times again ...

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powerfulFriend6523 June 8th, 2019

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