A Psychological Analysis Of The Song Bullet By Hollywood Undead

A Psychological Analysis of the Song “Bullet” By Hollywood Undead

There is an undeniable presence of psychological disorders that have been weaved in to the lyrics of countless songs in the music world. The band Hollywood Undead have composed several songs creating frequent undertones of physiological issues that are diagnosable according to criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM5). The best representations of Severe Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), substance abuse, suicidal ideation, planning, and attempts that lines up with the DSM 5 I 've come across is represented in their song “Bullet.” The following will be a presentation on severe MDD coupled with substance abuse presenting suicidal

Why is it always night, why are his thoughts always dark, negative. There is no more sun, there goes happiness, and it leaves him feeling sad and empty, and maybe even worthless. This individual also suffers from sleep disturbance, such as insomnia, indicated by the line “When you can 't sleep, well, you can 't dream, when you can 't dream, well, what 's life mean?” This line also further validates the disruptive thought patterns, and strengthens the indication of his feelings of worthlessness, and that his life has no meaning. The line “Gone too far and yeah, I 'm gone again, It 's gone on too long, tell you how it ends,” implies that he is exhausted both mentally and physically from the drain that depression has on someone, and the fact that he can’t sleep further encourage his dysfunctional thought processes. In the first verse he declares, “I 'm 20 stories up, yeah, I 'm up at the top, I 'll polish off this bottle, now it 's pushing me off, Asphalt to me has never looked so soft,” now he’s looking down from a twenty story building perhaps hoping that he can finely sleep once he reaches the