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- In this captivating analysis, delve into the depths of Johnny Cash's haunting rendition of "Hurt" from a psychiatric perspective with Dr. Syl. Dr. Syl dissects the emotional landscape of Cash's performance, exploring themes of pain, loss, and redemption.
Through a lens of psychological insight, Dr. Syl examines how Cash's personal struggles with addiction, grief, and existential angst are palpably expressed in every note and lyric of this iconic song. Drawing on theories of trauma, depression, and self-reflection, Dr. Syl unpacks the profound impact of "Hurt" on both Cash's own psyche and the collective consciousness of his audience.
Join us on a journey through the mind of a musical legend as we unravel the therapeutic power of music and the universal human experience it captures. Gain a deeper understanding of the intersection between art, emotion, and mental health in this thought-provoking analysis by Dr. Syl.
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I live in the deep south in the states and Cash is revered. So much of the imagery used in the video is steeped in the lifeblood of what it feels like to live here. This video brought me to tears the first time I heard it. It is so potently in a life filled with personal struggle of a hard life and how the longer you live in that mindset the further you feel yourself slipping away. And when the dust settles there is so much regret left. You mourn for the life you never had and the person you never got to be. I think coming to terms with you past is the only way people who have had experiences like that can truly find peace in ourselves.
This is a really powerful song. I am older, later 60s. Life does seem to be loss, loss, and loss. Everyone is going away, mostly to cancers. This current period of loss is the second such in my life. When I was 21, AIDS took almost all of my friends. This is not necessarily depressing, but it does cut through a lot of illusions. What remains is not nothing, but kind of subtle. It is also still incredibly painful. This is the fate of everybody, but people like to pretend otherwise.
Dear Dr. Syl, I recently lost my little dog that I had for 13 years. She was amazing, and in 13 years, we only spent one night apart while I was hospitalized for one night. She was certainly not my only dog companion, but she is definitely my last. I’m not able to go through the pain anymore. Thank you for sharing your expertise about death. I am so very grateful for you sharing this video and that beautiful song by Johnny Cash. My husband and I are huge fans of his success. “walk the Line” is one our favorite videos. It’s been 3 1/2 months since my Lilly left, and I am finally moving on to a new life without her. ❤❤❤ You are a gem.
I’m so sorry for your loss. I’ve been there and it’s devastating. It sounds like the two of you had an amazing life together filled with love. It’s beautiful that you found that in each other. Best of luck to you moving forward and RIP lovely Lilly. 💗💗
I am so sorry! That pain is indescribable, I know it too well. I’ve lost beloved members of my immediate family (most recently my sweet, young mum) and I’ve lost precious pets, and the heartbreaks all hurt to my very core. Words can feel hollow, but I hope you can find some comfort in knowing that you gave your Lilly an absolutely wonderful life with you. I believe with all my heart that she’ll be watching over you for the rest of your life. 🌺💖
My condolences to you. Losing a pet is like losing a family member. They play a big part of our lives. I have lost a dog to parvo and it was so hard on me. I have another dog now but i constantly worry about him dying.
Remember the small things in life, sunshine, rain, beautiful gardens. ❤
Be brave when loss affects you in the many different forms in life. ❤
Today is the most important. ❤
Keep your most important people closest. ❤
Be kind to yourself you are amazing. ❤
I am 71 years old and, while I agree that it's important to acknowledge the losses one experiences as one ages, it's definitely possible to experience gains as well. I earned a black belt and took on a new career in my 50s. Recently, after a bout of cancer treatment, I started a new exercise program and I'm gaining strength and feeling strong. I know I have limitations and they're going to become more limiting as I age, but I know I can keep growing as well. I hope to continue living my life in such a way that, on my deathbed, I can say I had fun and did my small part to make the world better.
Proud of you Sir! 👏😎
I love how you addressed dissociation and explained what it is/why it’s a thing.
I have cptsd with high levels of dissociation - my clinical psych said that dissociation isn’t an on/off switch for me, it’s a sliding scale and I’m always somewhere on the scale (ie always some degree of dissociated). The low level days mean I have less awareness of my physical body (I can’t feel my hands or feet), and the high end of the scale is 2-3 days of amnesia and I’ll just “come to” and appear in places without knowing how I got there or what day or time it is (which my clinical psych said isn’t uncommon for complex trauma).
Some of the S/H for me is actually to take me up on the dissociative scale because the emotional distress I’m feeling is too much. The last time I tried to sit and be present with the body feelings associated with a past S/A, I “came to” 3 days later and have no idea what happened. My psychiatrist reassured me that people don’t tend to do anything out of character while in those blackout dissociative states (thankfully! Haha).
Hypothetically, I would normally S/H until the physical pain was so bad that it takes me further out of my body but I’ll still have memory, which isn’t ideal, but at least if I’m controlling the sliding scale myself to some extent then I don’t risk the amnesia thing happening again.
Just to clarify, I’ve been seeing a clinical psychologist every other week for the last 3 or so years and I’m actually doing quite well! My psych said that my brains forgotten that it owns a body, so there’s exercises I do at home to help remap my neural pathways (somatic work) so that I’m not just a floating head that doesn’t own a body😅😋 and actually this week I was allowed to try doing homework that isn’t just the body work! Homework outside of the somatic work was a bit of a no go zone because the chances of me accidentally triggering myself and losing 2 or 3 days was quite high, but I’m at a stage where I’m allowed to dip my toe in the water and start dabbling now 🤗
Slowly, slowly. It takes time but things can get better ❤️🩹🙏✨
You will make a great psychiatrist. You are very compassionate and caring and i believe we need more of that in mental health. This song is both beautiful and triggering at the same time for me. I feel like i emotionally push the people i love away because i have lost several friends that have died from su*icide and lost a father not too long ago and i feel like if i push them away it will hurt less when they pass
As someone who's 36 but have lost over 20 people actually quite close to me and many of them very young, I do think getting older is loss-loss-loss, BUT it's learning to still find the contrasting gains, beauties, hopes, life. Living long means learning to find the life around you....and to appreciate it *because* of the dead.
Being alive is painful but it's a gift others are deprived. To be alive at all is to be lucky. Appreciate it.
I'm 62, and I have a different perspective than I had at 30 or 40, for sure. I almost laughed when you said you were feeling middle-aged at 29, but then I stopped to remember what I felt like as 30 approached. People say life goes so quickly ... and they're right. Honor every perspective at every age. My mom will be 88 next week, and she longs for the days she was my age and could pick up a 12 pack of soda without it being "heavy." I long for the days when my parents were young and when I wasn't one of the oldest people in a meeting room at work. When I didn't look at my workplace and realize how different I am from the people just entering the workforce. Yes, this song and the video always make me think of that juxtaposition between young and old. Johnny's hand shaking as he poured out the wine vs. the scene of him hopping easily into the train car. I try to look at it as every day is the youngest I'm ever going to be again, so I don't waste it wishing for 10 years ago. It's hard to accept. It's hard to accept role reversals with your parents, as you take care of the people who always took care of you, and the eventual loss of those precious souls, who just seem like another old person to the world at large, but who are your everything and still worth so much more than anyone else can ever feel. Ah, but I'm rambling. What matters to me with the time I have left? That I leave positive, happy memories in the lives of the people I come into contact with. That the people I love will feel I made a positive difference in their lives and that they never forget, or wonder, how much I love them. I don't long for fame or fortune, I long for my legacy to be positive ripples through the generations to come, even though there will be people who never know me, maybe their parents or grandparents passed on something I did or said that made them feel like they were their best in my company.
What a beautiful post. 💚
This song was written by someone in their late 20s.
@@nobodyimportant7804 Understood. But this particular version holds a different impact with where Johnny was in life when he sang it. At least for me. 💜
My beautiful “adopted” daughter has a long history of severe self harm; she had an awful abusive childhood & we have developed a very close relationship, she is my daughter’s best friend & we love her unconditionally. I am a clinical psychologist who understands dissociation self harm on an intellectual & professional level & I do not engage those skills when I am with her or after she has self harmed. This song is so beautiful & it resonates so deeply with me.
None of us are guaranteed any more than this moment; I have had a lot of loss & what matters to me is my relationship with my husband, children, friends, my dogs & horses & my eternal quest for understanding my motivations & trying to improve who I am & try to understand the human condition ♥️♥️♥️
Recently got diagnosed with bpd, cptsd and your videos have been so educational and interesting.
This song to me is about depression and addiction. It really moves me, cry every time I hear it.
incredible
for a long time I couldn't listen to this song, I was going through a drug resistant major depressive episode (lasting 13yrs) it just spoke to my pain to seductively that if I did listen I wouldn't have lasted long. so this is the first time I've listened to it since then, now that I am stable and I remember everything, it brings a quietness over me the song is poetic and the pain is either a known thing or just listening to this song. I believe from what I've gone through the pain is something known that comes up to be remembered through this song.
thank you for this vid x
Reznor's art thought me acknowledge the darkness and anger within. Over a decade since then! Now I know pain destroys our fancy cortex as a first step, and if you endure this roughness some wisdom may come -through the wound itself! My friend, pain's owe may silence our mouths but that is why it is necessary to overcome it and make wisdom out of silence. There's everything to add! No matter the success (empire of dirt), there's nothing "in the end" if you can't understand loss and sorrow. Easy to say! May the beauty of poetry guide us to the end.
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This song really helped me grieve my mum's passing 4 years ago. It makes me cry every time I hear it. Such poignant regret in his voice 😢
I have cried many tears to this song in my teens. Now I’m 35 and a tear came 😢 Diagnosed with PTSD but probably CPTSD but that diagnose arent really used here in Sweden where I live.
I love this song! 😊
This was the first song to ever make me cry. The first song to really hit home for me.
It reminds me a psychiatric day hospital where people were living their lives as an inevitable burden they had to endure every day and hope as something quite distant. Some people were so affected they were apathetic and given up in mentality snd posture to life.
Pure love and connection matters
Exactly. Every word.
I wish I knew how to describe what this song brings up for me, both in the NIN version that I heard back in 1995 and the Johnny Cash one. I think he was a fitting artist to do this cover and I love that Trent went on record saying that the song belongs to Johnny now. I know that what it brings up for me is related to my ever growing fear of death and my coping with loss but also I can sense the undertone of low self esteem in the lyrics and in Johnny's performance. Which is the irony that given another chance even those with low self esteem might not do anything different essentially and so ultimately it makes me feel futility in life, at least that's what causes me to cry when I hear this. Even though I know that the important parts are in between and in the moments we do have and share with others and ourselves. But a part of me is still holding onto that fear and that pain. Which I guess is what I have been dealing with in my therapy. So I cannot see past that right now. I guess in a way my heart breaks because I have always thought that what was important in life is fulfillment and experience and being with people but at 5 years old it felt like hardly anyone else, even adults, understood this. As if I came out of the womb an old man searching for meaning in an indifferent nature of an imperfect yet resilient human condition. And I cry for the lost time as much as the loss of loved ones. And my own lost time knowing that it will inevitably end and that my mental health has been and continues to be such a major obstacle to what I have always wanted, searched for, mourn for, and feel separated from most of the time before I die.
This song always breaks me. A LOT! I unfortunately relate to it very closely, and there are too many things that can't be fixed. Hide in your Shell by Supertramp is another.
I have always enjoyed your videos. Very good advice and information about meds and mental illness. I just got my membership today.
I like to think you have your name in neon lights in every room in your house 😆
If he doesn’t yet then he absolutely should lol
Beautiful
It’s interesting that you thought of ‘death’ when listening to the chorus, specifically ‘Everyone I know goes away
In the end’
I thought of his drug use.
We could also see it as someone’s mental health issues being ‘too much’ for some and those people choosing to leave.
Death, however, has never crossed my mind when listening to this song. It’s funny how differently we hear things 😊
I'm 35 now with three daughters. A 5 year old and twin 9 month olds. I found my early 30's to be really difficult to come to terms with. During that time a lot of things you thought were important in your late 20's starts to fall a way. My focus and what's important to me now is sharing my experience, wisdom and emotion with my little people. Breaking generational hurt and hopefully getting them to adulthood with a very centered and solid state of wellbeing. I still have material things in focus but with a different lens. What material things do I need to surround my family with in order to create the environment that will enable me to achieve those goals in raising my children.
I don't need a car with a mercedes badge on the front, I need a car that can take the kids and a few of their friends out on adventures so they can build memories. I don't need a house in an affluent neighborhood, I need a house where the kids are safe and they've got room to build cubby houses and dig in the dirt. The material things are a means to create memories and experiences so the generational perspective that gets handed down is one of joy, love, support. Thats what I want to leave behind. My kinds, Grand Kids and Great grand kids growing up knowing love
Thank you for this video, i love this song too. It makes me feel regrets for my mistakes but it's healing. It's like this man helps me to let my regrets out. I'd REALLY like you to react to Kintsugi by Lana del Rey - this is a beautiful song about coping loss of our beloved ones. I guess psychiatrists help people to overcome this kind of trauma.
I'm exactly twice your age and have lost both parents, two siblings and my partner, I have no biological children, but my nephew is my reason to continue to get out of bed in the morning.
The NIN version came out in 1995. I've been listening to for over 25 years. The Johnny Cash version came out around 2002, Trent Reznor (NIN) seems to really like this version, he was quoted saying "that song isn't mine anymore". I like this one a lot as well, but the NIN version is more meaningful to me.
I honestly believe that Trent was being polite to a dying man who was a legend - as he should be.
Greatful for good
I think it’s a very beautiful Song But to me it is feeding the depressed feelings inside me. And you should only feed the wolf you want strong. So to say
Also makes me think of my somewhat depressed grandfather that has passed a few years ago
I miss him
Relationship matter. Connections with others.
Even you’re male, would try to make an appointment, so great compliment for your channel,don’t forget about yourself 👍🧡😎
Pretty sure the main theme of that song was about substance use and how it changes you , you loose yourself , others , it causes pain but I’m no psychiatrist 🥴
As a woman I put myself in the shoes of the one being sung to. The singer is dangerous. Capable of violence and pulling the pin on his life like a grenade. How can you build trust and intimacy with a man while fearing being made to hurt? I'm grateful for the stable blood relatives I can always rely on no matter what.
Trent Reznor was not stable when he wrote this. He was a young man in the grip of addiction and mental illness and it is a song about exactly that.
30 years(?!?) later, he is doing much better and seems like a happier person.
In the song, he hurt himself, not others, FYI.
I think her he played this song just couple of months before he died (in 2003)
Have you read ‘Starring at the sun’, (Yalom)?
I am so late to this bc I slept in but dr syl do you have any book recommendations to buy to learn about psychology?
This song is written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, not Johnny Cash.
Can I follow you on Instagram? How many years it takes for you to become a psychiatrist in Australia? In Brazil doctors usually take the usual 6 years in medical school course and they’re already a generalist doctor then they do sth called residency which is not the same as the US but it usually take about 3 years where they apply to places where they can train in that particular area. It takes about 10 years plus other specialization courses in drugs types and so on.
And im sublimation how do you channel that energy of anxiety and frustration if you want to hit your boss or situation at that very moment 😂 lol that’s the question. Doesn’t it fade away inside you?
Arguably the best song that Trent Reznor wrote - but it isn't even the best song on The Downward Spiral, IMO. He wasn't even 30 when he wrote it.
I have no idea why people like this cover, it is very weak.