{"id":2448273,"date":"2019-09-03T06:17:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T12:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=879062"},"modified":"2019-09-03T06:17:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T12:17:03","slug":"lizzo-halsey-shawn-mendes-take-part-in-mental-health-awareness-radio-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/lizzo-halsey-shawn-mendes-take-part-in-mental-health-awareness-radio-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo, Halsey, Shawn Mendes Take Part in Mental Health Awareness Radio Special"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Halsey, Lizzo, Shawn Mendes and Tegan and Sara are among the artists taking part in \u201cI\u2019m Listening<\/a>,\u201d a radio program that aims to raise mental health awareness. The two-hour, commercial-free broadcast special will air on 235 Entercom stations on September 8th \u2013 the beginning of National Suicide<\/a> Prevention Week \u2013 at 7 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n

Blink-182, Disturbed and numerous athletes, first responders and mental health professionals will also take part in the special, with listeners participating via live call-in and an interactive website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lizzo has been candid about her struggles with mental health on social media, writing on Instagram<\/a> in June, \u201cI\u2019m depressed and there\u2019s no one I can talk to because there\u2019s nothing anyone can do about it. Life hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following an outpouring of support, Lizzo posted<\/a> the following day, \u201cI learned in the last 24hrs that being emotionally honest can save your life. Reaching out may be hard but as soon as I did it, I was immediately covered in love. I used to think of sadness as a constant with fleeting moments of joy in between\u2026 but it\u2019s a wave.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I opened up about my mental health episode a few months ago, I was triggered like I normally am, and honestly it\u2019s happened to me a bunch, and I\u2019ve opened up on the internet about it a bunch\u2026 I just didn\u2019t have a million followers when I did it, so it didn\u2019t connect with as many people as it did this time,\u201d Lizzo said in a video for \u201cI\u2019m Listening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think issues around identity and mental health are intrinsically linked,\u201d Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara said in a statement of the double stigmas around health and discrimination in the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes sense to me now, that if I don\u2019t talk about my feelings, I\u2019m not going to feel well, I\u2019m not going to be well,\u201d Quin added. Through the work that we do with The Tegan and Sara Foundation, and some of the staggering statistics surrounding queer people and mental health, we hope that by talking about some of our experiences as young people, that it will encourage others to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMental health and suicide prevention is a year-round initiative at Entercom and we are doing our part to end the stigma by encouraging people to talk,\u201d Entercom\u2019s chief programming officer Pat Paxton said in a statement. \u201cLike millions of others, my family has been impacted by mental health issues and the effect it has on friends and families is devastating. \u2018I\u2019m Listening\u2019 is when our vast network of radio stations and digital platforms unite on the same day, at the same time, to ultimately save lives. If we help just one person, our time will have been well spent.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Halsey, Lizzo, Shawn Mendes and Tegan and Sara are among the artists taking part in \u201cI\u2019m Listening,\u201d a radio program that aims to raise mental health awareness. The two-hour, commercial-free broadcast special will air on 235 Entercom stations on September 8th \u2013 the beginning of National Suicide Prevention Week \u2013 at 7 a.m. local time. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 04:43:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}