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

https://s3.amazonaws.com/songtalk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Song-Talk-Radio-Episode-221-Adi-Aman-Mental-Health-Week.mp3

Download the lyrics for the show to follow along:

* Logic-1-800-273-8255

* Rush-Open-Secrets

* U2-Bad

* Don-McLean-Vincent

The songs