Blue Mood Month
Blue Mood Month
SANE has teamed up with Spotify and Feeling Gloomy to help lift everyone’s mood in January (and throughout 2012) by harnessing the power of music.
We're delighted that some of our celebrity friends and supporters have given a kick-start to this initiative by sharing their Blue Mood Month playlists with us.
We want you to make a playlist or album of your favourite ‘sad songs that make you happy’ i.e. songs that might have dark lyrics or mood but in fact cheer you up. Think of it like a modern version of Desert Island Discs but without the chat.
Just choose 10-12 songs (more if you like) and create a Blue Mood Month playlist on Spotify. Please share it with us on Facebook and Twitter and encourage friends and family to get involved as well. This will raise vital awareness of our mental health campaign: Year of the Black Dog
Partners
Spotify is a new way to listen to music. Millions of tracks, any time you like. Just search for it in Spotify, then play it. Just help yourself to whatever you want, whenever you want it.
Feeling Gloomy runs the world's only club devoted to sad music. They operate in London, Berlin and New York.
By contributing a playlist you help to promote the following mental health initiatives:
Black Dog Campaign
The Black Dog Campaign aims to reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness and encourage people to seek help rather than suffering in silence. The campaign runs from 1st July 2011 until 31 December 2012. To bring the campaign to life we have designed visually striking statues. The Black Dogs are a physical symbol to externalise moods and thoughts that can be hard to communicate. We hope the statues will help people to:
- define their experience of the ‘invisible’ condition: mental illness
- find a new language to express difficult inner feelings like anxiety, depression and loneliness
- discuss mental illness more openly, promoting greater understanding and acceptance
Send a Text Save a Life
Another aspect of the Black Dog Campaign that will launch in 2012 is Send a Text Save a Life to engage the public in improving mental health. SANE will give people the knowledge, and equip them with a practical toolkit, to recognise important mental health warning signs. And it will empower each one of us to take common-sense actions. A simple text message can lift the spirits, change a person’s mood and in some cases, even save a life.