It was Canadian Mental Health Week‘s 66th year and we thought we’d put a spotlight on songs that talk about the challenges of maintaining mental health.

This year’s hashtag is #getloud.

For this special show, we had guest host Adi Aman from Beige Shelter, and four songs that talk about mental health.

We talked about:

• Beige Shelter’s mental health advocacy song, Light Your Way
• Song Meanings, a great site to see others interpretations of popular songs
• suicide
• addiction
• the role of music and art in mental health
• Loving Vincent
• Oliver Sacks and his work with Alzheimer patients and the power of music

Listen to the show

Download the lyrics for the show to follow along:

• Logic-1-800-273-8255
• Rush-Open-Secrets
• U2-Bad
• Don-McLean-Vincent

The songs