TV and radio personality, podcaster and SANE Australia Board Director Osher Günsberg is calling for people to share their top song that’s had a positive impact on their mental health. The songs will be added to a playlist which will celebrate the power of music in improving moods.
“As someone who used to play music all the time in all kinds of bands, music is an outlet I’ve used for a lot of my life to get good feelings in or bad feelings out,” Günsberg commented “Nothing can give you goosebumps faster than the right lyric with the right chorus – and that can change your whole day.”
Günsberg is passionate about reducing stigma around mental illness and speaks openly about his experiences with anxiety, psychosis and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
“Sometimes when my anxiety starts piling up on itself, I put on some exceedingly heavy Viking Metal (it’s a whole genre to itself) then I get on my bike and smash out super-intense intervals while listening to gallopy songs about rowboats and dragons and swords and things,” Günsberg commented “I always feel better afterwards.”