I will be sharing my experiences as a musician and as a person who has lived with mental health issues for many years. Pulling from existing research and my own experiences such as the pressure I often put on myself to perform, the perfectionist mentality that can hold back my composing, and the therapeutic value I find in music at the lowest of times in my life. I hope that by sharing these experiences I can set a positive example and help others in the music industry talk more about how they are thinking and feeling.