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Dave Holmes

I just try to listen to the man upstairs.

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Hi Ren
Ren
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I found this song not to long after I tried to end my life a little over a year ago. It was the first time having bipolar that a song made me feel seen. I cried the entire day and listened to it over and over.

Today I value my life so much. This song means so much to me and so does #Ren

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Read All About It, Pt. III
Emeli Sandé
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I always doubted myself. I found this song when I needed to come out of my shell more to help people when I started working in a busy NYC emergency room. In a weird way this song gave me confidence that what I have to say matters. That this youngest of six had important things to say and to say them with real meaning and conviction.

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Written In the Stars (feat. Eric Turner)
Tinie Tempah
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I use to be a union delegate and a damn good one too when this song came out it would always inspire me to think about all I have overcome. I have mental illness, then it was unmedicated and I am also on the spectrum. Our family grew up in.a pretty rough part of Brooklyn in the 80's.

A few years eailer I had worked on the Obama campaign for my Union and at the time I was kinda feeling myself for the first time in my life. I loved helping people. The line "I used to be the kid that no one cared about. That's why you have to keep screamin' 'til they hear you out" hit me so hard.