A lot of young musicians deal with a lot of anxiety. One of the ways they cope with their constant state of worry is with alcohol and drugs. Using substances even if legal to deal with emotions is dangerous.
This is because instead of working through the anxiety and receiving counseling, emotions are suppressed. This includes the dangerous practice of binging. FOMO is not necessarily a bad thing. He had such a huge impact on musicians of his era. Every jazz musician wanted to be like him because of his incredible music talent.
Unfortunately, Charlie Parker had an addiction to heroin and morphine. Guess what? A lot of the younger musicians who worked with him also ended up using drugs.
Instead, people who realize that they are easily influenced should be proactive in finding positive influences. There are incredible musicians who will inspire you to reach new artistic highest and counsel you on dealing with the setbacks which are inevitable. The most important aspect of your creative life is consistency.
Try thinking of one musician who has remained at the pinnacle of creativity for 4 or 5 decades while consistently using heavy drugs. In reality, you will end up isolating yourself. Without this, without awareness, the issue will stay normalised, and we will inevitably lose more and more musicians to substance abuse. Your email address will not be published. By Emma Wilkes.
Posted in Music. Unfortunately, the nature of this industry that pushes musicians to such extremes is unlikely to change It is also important to remember that drug use and mental health issues are inherently intertwined in the music industry, especially when you consider how high the rates of mental illness are among musicians.
If you or anyone you know is suffering from substance abuse, mental health charity Mind has a helpful and extensive list of resources. Visit here. And there is plenty available for after the show. Unlike a star athlete, whose performance will suffer, fail a drug test and likely get cut from the team, a musician can continue drug and alcohol abuse for years and still perform in some capacity. There is nothing to discipline them or provide pressure and incentive to stay clean.
Often a big star has people close to them who could get them to seek help and get clean. But those same friends or employees are often unwilling to confront them for fear of being fired or shunned by the artist. The value of a musician to the band, for keeping the show on the road, is often another incentive to turn a blind eye.
Our musical performers are valuable to our culture. They are also role models for young people so what they do affects many more lives than their own. As the environment which they live and work certainly does not contribute to a life of abstinence, extra effort must be made to help steer them away from drug abuse.
Most well-known and popular musicians are relatively rich by modern standards, and the wealthier and wealthier they get and they are, the more sustainable their bad habits are too. It is expensive to abuse drugs, but musicians can afford it. Drug dealers are essential salesmen at heart and they, as any other salesman would be, prefer to target the rich.
The rich can afford more drugs and higher quality drugs, so dealers tend to target them. The result is that musicians are exposed to drugs more often than the average Joe. The social and status-related benefits of being around musicians are very high indeed. For one to be the guy to supply a musician of any caliber or genre with his or her favorite fix would mean entrance into their inner circle of friends and connection.
Drug dealers will work a lot harder to get in good with a musician than they would with an average, middle class American individual, as they have so much more to gain from this endeavor.
Honestly, this is actually what led to the downfall of legendary jazz singer Billie Holliday and her sad story was begun with drug abuse. The vast majority of incredibly successful musicians are under the age of They are young, and they often became famous at a very, very young age. Because of this musicians can sometimes be immature and inexperienced, and thus make stupid decisions without really thinking them through that are then magnified on a 10X scale by their money and their fame.
Peer pressure is probably the biggest factor in musicians abusing drugs and alcohol. To be a musician is to be cool. The resultant qualities and characteristics of many drug users and abusers, such as taking risks and being fearless, are celebrated among the young and are admired and looked up to. A lot of times musicians, especially when they are very young, are duped into the thought that, without taking drugs, they will not be perceived as cool.
Even without all of the peer pressure and environmental incentives though, there is another reason why musicians abuse drugs and alcohol that comes on a very intimate level. The over-stimulation of this reward system, which normally responds to natural behaviors linked to survival eating, spending time with loved ones, etc.
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