How to Disappear Completely

it's my mental breakdown and i get to choose the song

The dissociation anthem

I have schizophrenia and it's incredible how radiohead manages to drown out my delusions and hallucinations so seamlessly, whenever the voices come, if I play any radiohead song Thom Yorke's voice always manages to be louder and more soothing than them. it's incredible how music can aid people so much

If you’re depressed this song will comfort you, if you’re happy this song will depress you

The song is about the aftermath of OK Computer and the touring that followed in the wake of its success. Thom Yorke said “The lyrics came from something Michael Stipe said to me. I rang him and said, ‘I cannot cope with this.’ And he said, ‘Pull the shutters down and keep saying, ‘I’m not here, this is not happening.’”

Songs to listen to when you need to cry but can't because you're too emotionally guarded.

This is one of the most beautiful songs ever made. It encapsulates anxiety and existentialism, the overwhelming characteristics of modern life with its ethereal strings and jabs. Yorkes voice is a perfect compliment

me after facing a minor inconvenience

[Verse 1] That there, that's not me I go where I please I walk through walls I float down the Liffey [Chorus] I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here I'm not here [Verse 2] In a little while I'll be gone The moment's already passed Yeah, it's gone [Chorus] I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here I'm not here [Verse 3] Strobe lights and blown speakers Fireworks and hurricanes [Chorus] I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here I'm not here

This song got me through the worst days of my life. Crushing depression, the deaths of loved ones, the cruelty of the world too sharp and too bright to bear. When i wanted to leave, i would listen to this song and disappear until it was safe to return. Music saves lives and this song saved at least one.

I love how the bass line is drifting, but always there. Then towards the end of the song, the orchestra starts to swell up and down out of control, like a storm at sea and the bass comes in again and pulls everything back on course. As if someone is being twisted up by their thoughts and emotions, pulled in all directions, then they feel a warm presence in the chaos that calms them down. Love it. Wow.

my father followed this tutorial step by step

the soundtrack to my divorce, losing the kids, my life falling apart: explicitly 2016-2018. i'm sure it'll get better any day now.

Thom Yorke is a visionary. For those of us who suffer from depression, anxiety, social anxiety and all the other maladies of the soul, this song really speaks to us. You know that room down the hall in your mind, the one you keep locked and do not go near ? That is where this song takes me. Disassociation, despair, resignation and maybe ultimately some comfort and peace . Thank goodness for Thom Yorke and Radiohead.

This song saved me from suicide About a year ago i had the most horrible night ever i had enough really It was all too much for me. For years I've supressed everything inside not knowing it'll come back and it did but one night i grabbed a knife from the kitchen and put on my music and started to tear up a bit and after 2 songs this song came up it's a forgotten song to which I haven't listened for years. I literally drowned in my own tears and fell asleep and morning came i felt new like all those supressed feelings just gone... Ps: if ever suicide comes to ur mind everytime something bad happened and you feel like it's just all too much ... Just remember suicide is a thought of comfort that knowing theres a way out of things you can't handle but it isn't a solution. Update: Thank you everyone ❤️ I'm doing better in life now just turned 18 and I'm living the best life I got a girlfriend she's super nice and she's the one I had it rough throughout the years but there's plenty more to come but I'm prepared I hope y'all doing great ❤️ Radiohead rocks👊

I've been here 67 years. I recently discovered Radiohead and now it's almost all I listen to. I'm an infant. We're given X is approximately less than 100 years to figure out something that started about 14 billion years ago. We're all infants so let's not be so hard on ourselves. ❤

Thom has said that this is his favorite Radiohead song.

Radiohead's discography is an entire realm this is the sea at its darkest and coldest

This song is a masterpiece for many reasons. Thom suffered depression and writers block during the OK Computer tour and Radihead was pressured by the fans and the media about the next album. Thom then met REM lead singer Michael Stripes, and told him about what he felt. And he told him:"Pull the shatters down and keep repeating these words, I'm not here, this isn't happening" The rest is pretty much history as Yorke used this phrase for the chorus of the song. I'm pretty sure Stripes told him something else which he used as a lyric in a song for Amnesiac. Not my favourite, but it has to be their best song by far, it pretty much portrays what Kid A was inspired by, the anxiety, the nightmares Thom had, which he literally sings in the Couple, everything. Even Thom said that's its his favourite Radiohead song

I've experienced severe dissociation ever since I was a kid, I've never had it professionally checked out, but I'm sure my upbringing and household had something to do with it. For many years I was unable to put into words what I was feeling to other people, keep in mind I grew up right before the boom in mental health awareness of recent years, so I just didn't have the vocabulary to speak about my condition, and I live in a culture where mental health is greatly stigmatized and mental health services are simply too expensive for the average person. I struggled so much. I couldn't be at large social gatherings. I couldn't talk to my friends. Being in my house alone made me dissapear, being in public made me dissapear. Sometimes I couldn't even bring myself to go to school or go to work for days on end because of this intense, vile feeling of being a spectator of it all, of nothing around me being real, of nothing I did mattering at all, of being non-existant, constantly, loudly, it felt like I was ripped out of the driver seat of my life, like I was a ghost. Not even metaphorically but literally, it felt like I was a ghost I remember listening to this song for the first time, going in blind, and by the end I was bawling the hardest I've ever cried at any song in my life. The lyrics absolutely tore me apart. So many moments of my life had a name now, a face, someone finally understood what I felt, someone finally seemed to get it. I listened to the lyrics and saw myself so clearly it was as if the song was written just for me. It gave me strength to fight, it made me endure, it helped me more than I can ever put to words. I still struggle. And I'll keep stuggling. But I don't struggle now nearly as much as I did before, and I truly believe this song was the first push I had towards getting better, I can't say for sure if this song saved my life, but it gave me such an inmense feeling of relief, of hope, that it's hard to argue I'd be the person I am today without it