So to explain things a bit. The band Citizen Soldier was born in 2016. Obviously Jake himself wasn’t though as the lyrics suggest it was a sort of born again kind of moment. Before that after dealing with issues of depression and struggles with mental health he attempted to take his own life, afterwards in the pysch ward he wrote the lyrics to the song Let it Burn on the back of a napkin which went on to be the first song when he founded Citizen Soldier. As you mentioned from the comment in the video he now works as a licensed therapist and puts his own experiences and knowledge of the struggles people face with mental health into his music. Additionally one of my favorite fun facts about Jake he stays after shows, sometimes for hours so that everyone there who wants to meet or speak with him can do so.

You have to react to more of lo spirit, so powerful, so honest, so raw....

Born in 2016. Jake lead singer of Citizen Soldier tried to commit suicide and was in a psych ward.

Please react to more Citizen Soldier songs, if you choose to. I will be there with you along the way

excited to see this one. very deep song and perfect for mental health awareness month.

No disrespect to you or your take, but I think maybe you're getting something different than intended from the song. I don't read Lo's verse as an indictment on drugs for mental health, but on relying ONLY on them. At the end of the day your brain craves two things: serotonin and dopamine. Mental illness at the end of the day is a chemical imbalance. You don't get enough dopamine, you don't get enough serotonin, you get too much, one or both fluctuate. Drugs help. They do help. But they need to be the right drugs, the right amounts, prescribed by a professional who actually has your best interests at heart. And even then, they are NEVER the long-term fix. They're a band-aid. They are there to help regulate that chemical imbalance and make it easier for you to do the things that you need to do in your life to fix whatever is at the root of that issue with your mental health. Sometimes that is in fact the chemical imbalance itself, but there are things people can do to help with the symptoms of that, that aren't medication. I also don't think the whole idea of hope or religion was something prevalent in this song. I'm really not sure what set you off on that tangent, but I think the point of this song is that people reach that breaking point. They reach that limit, and sometimes we as people NEED somewhere to go. We NEED someone who will be there, who will see the real us and not judge us, who will lend us a shoulder to cry and lean on, and then when it's all said and done, and we've gotten the emotions out of our system, we NEED that same person to make us get back on our feet and push us to fix the problem. If your claim is we need to believe in something, I'd argue that this song's point is we need to believe in each other. We need to be able to trust each other to support one another emotionally and drive us forward. Because humans are a social species. We need social interaction, we need approval from our peers, we need someone even just to vent to when the world is too much. "If we walk through hell we might as well hold hands". This world is shit. Life is shit, but if we can lean on each other, and be there for each other, maybe it can be a little less shit.