Awareness After the Aftermath

08/04/2025

08/02/2025

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08/01/2025

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/chester-bennington-poignant-remarks-about-mental-health/
The musical world was brought to a standstill when Chester Bennington from Linkin Park died by su***de in 2017. Bennington was frequently open about his mental health battles, and that openness made him an inspiration for millions.

My whole life, I’ve just felt a little off,” Bennington painstakingly revealed. “I find myself getting into these patterns of behavior or thought – especially when I’m stuck up here [in my head]; I like to say that ‘this is like a bad neighborhood, and I should not go walking alone’.”

Revisiting heartbreaking remarks made by Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington about his battle with depression shortly before he lost his life in 2017.

07/31/2025

Legendary rap icon Eminem struggled with drug addiction throughout much of his early career. He made these struggles public in the documentary How To Make Money Selling Drugs, and much of his music features lyrics about being addicted and abusing drugs, with the 2010 album Recovery boasting about his difficulties getting off of them.

Eminem’s addiction was to sleeping pills, which he thought was better than being addicted to something like he**in or crack. He would mix pills like Xanax and Va**um, and this eventually lead to him overdosing on methadone in 2005, nearly killing him. The doctors claimed he had the equivalent of four bags of he**in in his system at the time they examined him.

He told MTV, “They were gonna have to put me on dialysis. They didn’t think I was gonna make it. My bottom was gonna be death.”

The struggles weren’t over there, though. Eminem relapsed within a month of his hospital release. It was ultimately his kids that convinced him to get clean. He wanted to be there for them and knew he wouldn’t be if he kept using drugs.

Eminem went to rehab to deal with the problem. He was up for days at a time due to quitting drugs cold turkey and even had to relearn tasks like walking due to his near-death experience. After leaving rehab Eminem filled the hole once filled with drugs with the natural high given off by running and exercise.

Replacing a deadly addiction with a healthy one is something many addicts do to keep themselves drug-free, and Eminem stands as a testament to this. It’s not easy to do, but with the right amount of help those feelings that you think can only be filled by drugs really can be replaced with something like running.

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