Having a hard time lately with anxiety and depression

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120. Just spotted this post.

Another liberal living alone.
Yes friends flake. Don't internalize that. It happens to us all, lots.

A lot of people recommended music.
That is my lifeblood. Enjoy what you like best.
While I personally love classical music, and play piano (thanks ro my parents for that!), which is an immersive experience and damn good therapy for my moods, guess why the blues were invented?

Everybody gets the blues now and then.
I find that some classical pieces, with their jazz roots, and dissonances, express our inner feelings. For example, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F, or Sibelius' violin concerto.

And take Tchaikovsky's 5th and 6th symphonies. He was an agonized person, and those symphonies will resonate with your inner feelings. By hearing them (or even playing a piano version) instead of taking in or holding all that confict, you can say "There: Tchaikovsky expressed it perfectly, and I can leave my conflict in that music, and let it go!.