The post Aimee Mann on Sad Songs, Mental Health, and Queens of The Summer Hotel appeared first on Consequence. The singer-songwriter discusses the heavy subject matter, her own experiences with ...

Is Christmas really the saddest day of the year? There’s a whole history of holiday music that explores what it’s like to be down-and-out during the season. Are you mourning absent family members?

When Susanna Kaysen documented her experience of being institutionalized as a young woman during the late 1960s for her 1993 memoir, Girl, Interrupted, and struggled between living in the inside ...