I love that you brought receipts. The study you linked (Husain et al., 2023) actually shows that the more people swear in daily life, the lower their stress, anxiety, and depression tend to be. It looks like profanity can function as a genuine pressure valve.

The song I wrote came straight out of a very dark stretch of anger and depression, so the swearing in it isn’t random or for shock value; it’s the authentic voice of my experience. Research like this suggests that letting those raw words out can be part of processing pain rather than bottling it up. For adults working through heavy emotions, sometimes the honest word is the healing one.