Talker’s “My Meds” is a Poignantly Realistic Portrait of Living With Anxiety and Depression

In the video for “My Meds” it may look like talker is rolling about her nicely appointed Bohemian loft but that’s all atmosphere. With the translucent drapery and sheets and soft lighting to enhance a sense of feeling trapped in a fog that won’t go away. At the center of the track are the plaintive vocals sketching a head space where you’re in that place overwhelmed by depression and/or anxiety that you don’t know how you’re feeling or what to feel beyond a formless emotional urgency that has no outlet because the trajectory of these feelings is usually attached to something solid and coherent that is a source of those feelings. You lose a loved one, your source of income, an opportunity, a friendship, a relationship or any number of other factors and you can wrap your emotional state around that and it makes both intellectual and intuitive sense. Unfortunately, depression and anxiety don’t always and maybe even rarely work that way and it can be an accumulation of things or a subconscious response to complex issues in your life or just plain a chemical imbalance triggered by who can say what. But it is a feeling where you kind of wish time would disappear and you have no psychological anchors that bring you back from that edge. You don’t know what or how to feel but you feel that aforementioned momentum that feels like raw desperation even if you’re in a low energy place. Yes, a beautifully ethereal pop song with talker’s typically evocative vocals but one that truly captures what it’s like to be in a place many of us have been or are in now because the world and society in general has been in such a corrosive place with seemingly no one taking steps to reduce the ambient weight of challenges carried by most people. And meds can get you through some of the worst times but long term significant change is long overdue. But for now some solidarity on at least mental health issues is welcome and talker provides a bit of that with her song. Watch the video for “My Meds” on YouTube, follow talker at the links below and look out for her new In Awe of Insignificance EP due out 3/25/22.