From the album, "Sky Motel": an autobiographical account of Kristin Hersh's recovery from bipolar disorder, which alternately plagued Hersh yet seemed to gift her with her signature manic vocal delivery and oftentimes painfully honest lyricism while as singer/songwriter of Throwing Muses, and of course, most of her solo material.
According to mag./radio interviews and blog entries on the ThrowingMusic.com site, Hersh has for the most part been successful in her mental health recovery having had psychotherapy and Lithium treatment during the mid to late '90s, but occasionally has posted in her recent blog entries as still having difficulty with anxiety symptoms just going out walking in her (and incidentally, my own) neighborhood in Northwest Portland, OR unless accompanied by her husband & manager, Billy O'Connell.
And the meaning of this song to me personally? I too am in recovery and treatment for my own life-long struggle coping with Attention Deficit Disorder, plus chronic bouts of Major Depression, Generalized Anxiety, & Social Phobia. Oh, and I was still living in the Boston area about the time Kristin Hersh and her step-sister Tanya Donnelly formed the band Throwing Muses back in the mid-'80s .
From the album, "Sky Motel": an autobiographical account of Kristin Hersh's recovery from bipolar disorder, which alternately plagued Hersh yet seemed to gift her with her signature manic vocal delivery and oftentimes painfully honest lyricism while as singer/songwriter of Throwing Muses, and of course, most of her solo material. According to mag./radio interviews and blog entries on the ThrowingMusic.com site, Hersh has for the most part been successful in her mental health recovery having had psychotherapy and Lithium treatment during the mid to late '90s, but occasionally has posted in her recent blog entries as still having difficulty with anxiety symptoms just going out walking in her (and incidentally, my own) neighborhood in Northwest Portland, OR unless accompanied by her husband & manager, Billy O'Connell. And the meaning of this song to me personally? I too am in recovery and treatment for my own life-long struggle coping with Attention Deficit Disorder, plus chronic bouts of Major Depression, Generalized Anxiety, & Social Phobia. Oh, and I was still living in the Boston area about the time Kristin Hersh and her step-sister Tanya Donnelly formed the band Throwing Muses back in the mid-'80s .