“Let’s Go Dancing,” the newest hit from Girl Pow-R revives the 80s to sing our blues away! In fact, it tells a bigger story about making active decisions to get up and feel better. In our current age with different obstacles and trials, it seems easy for us to forget and not care for our mental state. “Let’s Go Dancing” reminds us that we are in charge of our mental state and acknowledging that is the first step to getting help.
Under Girl Pow-R’s upbeat tempo in “Let’s Go Dancing,” there is a more prominent, covert message to its listeners. “Let’s Go Dancing” wants its listeners to get and move and “shake their blues away.” However, its lyrics serve a greater purpose than being catchy and trendy – they are a message to listeners taking the first step towards feeling better to strive towards better mental health. Girl Pow-R’s “Let’s Go Dancing” pushes its listeners to take any action necessary to feel better about themselves and overcome their depression or anxiety.
Depression and anxiety in teenagers have become a rising problem in the world. Somehow, irrespective of its rising prominence, many teenagers are unable and sometimes unwilling to access the necessary help they need to feel better.
This post will look specifically at teenagers who are reluctant to access mental help facilities for various reasons and how family and friends can help mitigate their situations. Depression is a tricky situation that affects everyone differently, however the topic we will cover today is under-articulated and acknowledging that is taking the first step.
Taking the first step requires a depressed teenager to realise they are depressed. As a teenager who suffered from depression, I often wrote myself off as being too sensitive to events that triggered me. The constant excuses I said to myself allowed me to ignore the enormous problem I was dealing with: depression. By blaming myself for my awful feelings and ignoring the elephant in the room, I invalidated my feelings because I could not think of an alternative – it felt like help was just out of my reach.
Such is the sentiment that many depressed teenagers share because they invalidate their feelings. Since help is something they believe they can’t attain, they stay quiet and continue the destructive cycle. “Let’s Go Dancing” starts with the lines, “I’m here all alone”, “Wasting time on my phone.” These lines resemble how easy it is to spend your time ignoring what’s truly happening in your mind; “you know [you] wanna chill with [someone else],” but you’d rather “wast[e] time on [your] phone,” and ignore the signs.
Taking the first step is essential in getting better, but it is also the hardest because of our view of ourselves and depression. Some think having depression means they are weird or alien to society; others assume that they can’t possibly have depression because they noted no change in their lives.
If we can’t believe in ourselves or don’t allow ourselves to get that help, no one can move us to accept the support given. Hence, taking the first step requires us to be vulnerable to ourselves and admit something is wrong. It’s not shameful, and having depression does not make you weak. I think that if you can stand up and make decisions to make yourself feel better, then you are the strongest person ever. In the words of “Let’s Go Dancing,” “Come on now,” “Let it out,” “Feeling so free”. When you take that first step, you break your depressive cycle and will feel a weight lift from your shoulders.
Taking the first step is the hardest step in recovery because we are our own worst enemy – we are afraid to see ourselves be vulnerable to others. But if we identify a person we can rely on, whether our mom, an uncle or a friend and tell them what we feel, then we can begin the cycle of getting better. Depression is nothing to be ashamed of, as HelpGuide writes. It happens to almost everyone, a human phenomenon that we can overcome collectively.
“Let’s Go Dancing” pushes us to dance our blues away or contextually take that first step to get better and feel better, which is why its message is so important. If you want to find people to dance with (or learn how to dance), sign up for the Girl Pow-R training program to find your people!
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