{"id":6171,"date":"2022-05-12T18:01:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalmusicinstitute.in\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2022-05-12T18:01:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:31:51","slug":"mental-health-for-musicians-with-parekh-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalmusicinstitute.in\/v1\/mental-health-for-musicians-with-parekh-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health for Musicians with Parekh & Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"

The notion of the tortured soul finding creative outlet in music has pervaded through the ages. But are health and music mutually exclusive? Does one have to be sacrificed in order to achieve the other? We sat down with the celebrated duo Parekh & Singh<\/a> to talk about mental health, the circumstances that led to the cancellation of their 2019 tour \u2018Science City\u2019, what it takes to be a modern day music professional, and more.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Nischay, you have previously spoken about your experience of anxiety. How have you gone about managing your anxiety and what has that experience been like? Jivraj, what has your experience been of supporting your bandmate through this experience?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Nischay<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/strong> One of my longest relationships in life has been with my anxiety. I had a lot of anxiety around performance and life in general because the few times I did actually go in for professional therapy, the broad consensus was that it was a generalised anxiety disorder which is quite common. It fused itself with performance and the music business aspect of it. In 2019 and the decade that preceded it, I was not very well equipped internally in finding the right tools or living a balanced healthy life to support and manage all of that anxiety. I wouldn\u2019t say that there is anyone who can claim to have 100% handle over generalised anxiety disorder. It\u2019s always a process and it\u2019s always evolving. My thinking about it at that stage was that it\u2019s a problem, or an issue that I need to get rid of rather than learn to manage and live with. There was a switch that went off somewhere around 2019 and I needed that dramatic exclamation point to wake myself up to that fact that this is something that is a part of you and a part of your process in life so either you deal with it in a healthy manner or succumb to it and keep battling it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jivraj<\/strong><\/span>:<\/strong><\/span> The relationship with Nischay has been educational in a lot of areas where I wasn\u2019t spending much time thinking about. Mental health being one of them- I was pretty oblivious in the ten years leading up to 2019. I didn\u2019t know what that phrase meant, honestly. Learning what Nischay was going through and how he was dealing with it opened my eyes inwards into things I needed to deal with and wasn\u2019t even aware of. I started going to therapy because of Nischay. It has given me a lot of food for thought.<\/span><\/p>\n