Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey Through Mental Health

Picture this: someone is screaming at you as loud as they can for forty-five minutes straight. For most people, it would be the stuff of nightmares. For author Jason Schreurs and members of the punk rock community, it's therapy. Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health follows the transformational journeys of Schreurs and the other punks he learns from, revealing the healing power of a misunderstood and underestimated music community. They come to a life-changing realization--punk rock helped them at their lowest points and never left their sides. Coping with childhood sexual abuse and an undiagnosed mental health condition, Schreurs discovers punk rock as a youth and becomes part of its tight-knit scene. When a psychiatrist blindsides him with a bipolar diagnosis in his mid-40s, he embarks on a mental health discovery mission. In Scream Therapy, musicians, advocates, activists, and fans prescribe the punk subculture as a catalyst for mental health--a place where it's okay