Scream Therapy podcast episode 35: Geoff Rickly of Thursday on addiction as mental health condition
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Host Jason Schreurs talks to Geoff Rickly of Thursday and United Nations about his depression and how he became addicted to heroin after the breakup of his main band. Geoff talks about what music meant to him growing up and through his adulthood. Clean and sober for the past few years, Geoff now helps others both publicly and privately.
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Featured songs:
Thursday - "As He Climbed the Dark Mountain" from Split 7” with Envy (Temporary Residence, 2008)
Ink & Dagger - "Shadowtalker" from Drive This Seven Inch Wooden Stake Through My Philadelphia Heart (Initial Records, 1997)
Ink & Dagger- "Caretaker" from Drive This Seven Inch Wooden Stake Through My Philadelphia Heart (Initial Records, 1997)
About this podcast:
Scream Therapy explores the link between punk rock and mental health. My guests are members of the underground music scene who are living with mental health challenges, like myself.
Intro/background music:
Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache"
Render Useless - "The Second Flight of Icarus"
Artwork: Luke Ramsey - lukeramseystudi...
Contact host Jason Schreurs - jasonwschreurs@gmail.com
When I stopped listening to music that glorified mental health issues is when I started getting better. I feel like the music I listened to in high school played into glorifying my own issues.
Before I knew how to cope with my mental health, I'd listen to the War All The Time record on repeat. Thursday mean a lot to me.
@@drubbin9967 this morning I was having one of my moments where WATT was the only thing that could help me cope. Listening to the live version... End of Steps Ascending into WATT (which happens to be my favorite song) and he talks about how much other artists mean to him. Got me to smile. Like a lot of folks, I have an interpretation of the dove on my arm. Very grateful for the things Geoff has shared and written over the years.
❤ haunting and beautiful album
Had no idea he was a struggling heroin addict. I am as well. Have been an opiate addict for 13 years. Heroin for 7 and most recently fentanyl. I am still trying to kick to this day. My mental health has been a disaster recently..I almost died last year from endocarditis, sepsis. And pneumonia all at once. Ended up having to get my tricuspid valve replaced from the endocarditis. My body was wrecked and I am still healing a year later. It kind of feels like I got hit by a semi truck. I don't think I'll ever be back to what I felt like before. This is what is getting me down and my mental health and I keep going back to the dope. I've been to jail once and rehab twice. Luckily my charge for dismissed and after the first bout of rehab I was sober for 5 months. But relapsed. The 2nd time I only did 3 weeks in rehab and wasted 4grand and relapsed quite quickly. I just didn't want to be there. Please send me positive vibes. I feel like it's impossible to get off this shit. it honestly helps in some aspects...gives me energy and helps with the pain but when I kick recently because I've been doing so much I get so fucking sick and I feel everything my body has went through. I just lost a good friend too after getting him some from my guy after getting a ride home from him 2 hours away. I desperately needed to get home and that was the only way hed come get me.He hadn't done it in a while and he od'd. I've been so depressed since and feel like it's my fault he's gone. I just hope I can get through this and feel happiness again and maybe find love. It's ruined my relationships, family trust, job opportunities, music. It's good to hear Geoff talk about this though. I had no idea he went through this shit too though...good to know we aren't alone...ever
I hope you’re doing better, dude. Keeping fight the good fight.
Met Geoff a bunch of times, he's always worth talking to or even listening to like this.
Yo Geoff . Big ups , brother!! I know how hard this sh!t is.. congrats man- stay strong
This meant a lot to hear. To know that someone i look up to has these same feelings that i thought were just some flaw in myself, that made me lesser than everyone else. I hope things keep looking up for him. He put the work in and fought for it and that means something.
How does this channel have so little subscribers?? Holy shit. Thank you so much for making these videos man! New subscriber and forever one at that.
this episode really helped me recognize i was actually in crisis and not just being dramatic and to try to take care of myself before things get worse. you are doing good work with this podcast dude!
Thank you. You are very strong for recognizing that you needed to take care of yourself. I'm really glad you found the podcast. Take care.
Thank you for this! I can't believe I get to hear so much raw Geoff. Thursday was so influential to me. Thank you for the channel and I wish Geoff the best
Thursday.. what an amazing band. I saw them last month in Orange County, CA and let me tell you, just as great as when I saw them 20 years ago! Thank you for this!
Love Thursday.
My friend loved different bands and when we would go on long road trips I only liked certain songs of his, one of the songs was cross out the eyes it just really connected with me, then i started listening to all the albums, sadly we all got into that oxy craze which then turned to heroin, spent 3 years on methadone and now I look back and this is still one of my favorite bands of all time!
Just found this podcast - freaking awesone content
The fact that this opens with As He Climbed the Dark Mountain...f**k man. Here we go. Please talk about At This Velocity. Here we goooo!
Geoff is fucking amazing
I can relate so much, so very, very much.
I have never struggled with addiction, but for so much of my life I see fragments of myself in things he's talked about dealing with. I think that's why I clung to Thursday and WATT when I was trying to survive without knowing how to cope. I distinctly remember thinking at those lowest moments, it seems like/you know when he describes some songs that he's been through things and he's still here. Somehow. There has to be a way. I'd focus on that. Thursday really helped save me from my own mind back then. And sometimes it's still the only way I cope even though it's been 18 years and I've learned so many coping skills and how to deal with my trauma (work in progress!)
I only know what I read or hear from Geoff himself, but he seems like such a nice guy..
Thank you so much for this
Holy f#ck... I didn't know he has to go through shit like that
me also i was thinking he is clean and out of drugs tskkk
I've been a heroin addict for 15 years.
Thursday has always been one of my favorite bands. Geoff always reminded me
Of Jared Leto in “requiem for a dream”
It's never too late to quit...
What is the song Geoff is singing at the beginning?
Thursday - "As He Climbed the Dark Mountain" from Split 7” with Envy (Temporary Residence, 2008)
He is very pisces
He's also moon in cancer with a pretty gnarly and brutal moon pluto square. Explains all the fucked up traumatizing things that kept happening to him throughout life