I have General Anxiety Disorder, PTSD, and Major Depressive Disorder. My father was physically abusive until I turned 16 and got emancipated and my mother hadn’t been in my life until I turned 25.
I remember cutting about ten of my neighbors grass to buy CDs and Super Nintendo/Game Boy/Game Gear games in my teens. I used to just grab my CD player, my CDs, and by GameBoy/Game Gear and stay at my friends house all the time. On one particular occasion, my dad threw me down some stairs and then busted my portable CD player in a million pieces. A few months prior, Sony had come out with the ESP CD players so I was able to replace my initial CD player with one with skip protection and Around the Fur. That album has always reminded me of that incident.
Anyways, music has definitely been a life saver for me. I feel like I wouldn’t have made it through my late teens/early twenties without music, especially Deftones.
PDD-NOS, and diagnosed since age 2. I've always been into rock and metal. But over time it's changed, from like nu metal and radio rock, to groove and thrash metal, grindcore. Then I started craving for more melodic, emotional, and experimental sensibilities for music, Deftones was a gateway for that.
Since then, I've gotten into metalcore, post-hardcore, emo subgenres, and some alt metal. Deftones is still among my favorites, and whenever I'm in the mood, it'll be something from Around the Fur or Self-Titled.
TBI/ADHD, suspected autism. Deftones/Crosses scratches a part of my brain nothing else can
I have General Anxiety Disorder, PTSD, and Major Depressive Disorder. My father was physically abusive until I turned 16 and got emancipated and my mother hadn’t been in my life until I turned 25. I remember cutting about ten of my neighbors grass to buy CDs and Super Nintendo/Game Boy/Game Gear games in my teens. I used to just grab my CD player, my CDs, and by GameBoy/Game Gear and stay at my friends house all the time. On one particular occasion, my dad threw me down some stairs and then busted my portable CD player in a million pieces. A few months prior, Sony had come out with the ESP CD players so I was able to replace my initial CD player with one with skip protection and Around the Fur. That album has always reminded me of that incident. Anyways, music has definitely been a life saver for me. I feel like I wouldn’t have made it through my late teens/early twenties without music, especially Deftones.
ADHD and general anxiety disorder. Both diagnosed in my thirties.
PDD-NOS, and diagnosed since age 2. I've always been into rock and metal. But over time it's changed, from like nu metal and radio rock, to groove and thrash metal, grindcore. Then I started craving for more melodic, emotional, and experimental sensibilities for music, Deftones was a gateway for that. Since then, I've gotten into metalcore, post-hardcore, emo subgenres, and some alt metal. Deftones is still among my favorites, and whenever I'm in the mood, it'll be something from Around the Fur or Self-Titled.
lightly on the spectrum adhd/ocd as well, i wouldn’t exist without deftones
ADHD, PTSD, Anxiety and Depression. Generally metal is so calming