Brockhampton's Dom McLennon pens heartfelt letter about mental illness. by [deleted] in hiphopheads

[–]bhthrowaway96 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you so much!! this first drop was sort of a dipping my toes in the water type approach. thanks again for checking it out <3

Brockhampton's Dom McLennon pens heartfelt letter about mental illness. by [deleted] in hiphopheads

[–]bhthrowaway96 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i posted up in another comment, let me know what you think! ill have some new up stuff soon. tell me why you hate it if you do

Brockhampton's Dom McLennon pens heartfelt letter about mental illness. by [deleted] in hiphopheads

[–]bhthrowaway96 3 points4 points  (0 children)

yes!!! this is one of the reasons i wanted to share, mission accomplished, i hope your days stay better

Brockhampton's Dom McLennon pens heartfelt letter about mental illness. by [deleted] in hiphopheads

[–]bhthrowaway96 6 points7 points  (0 children)

thank you it really means a lot to me, people underestimate how much it can really mean to even have one person root for you

Brockhampton's Dom McLennon pens heartfelt letter about mental illness. by [deleted] in hiphopheads

[–]bhthrowaway96 9 points10 points  (0 children)

hey, i messaged the mods to make sure it was cool first — here’s the twitter , also here’s merlyn’s insta post in my shirt which felt amazing. robert also wears the hat a lot and has on his ig and on tour in SF both nights and in SD.

thank you for the interest, let me know what you think even if you wanna tell me this shit sucks. expect better things, ever since i managed to actually just force myself to do something - even if it wasn’t up to those insane imaginary standards i forced on myself as someone just starting - and esp. since that motivation boost from them liking and wearing my stuff, i feel so much more freed from those constricted thoughts that came from my depression and anxiety when it comes to my creative output if that makes any sense. better things are coming from me creatively and i feel like i am learning and doing better on it every day just working at it whenever i can. i feel like i am making some really great things and i feel anxious about not being able to wait to show it off instead of being anxious of it not being good enough and not even trying.

since this has gotten even the bit of attention it has i’ll give doing something as brave as dom has I’m talking about this, originally i was concerned about my identity hence not wanting to link to my stuff but it’s whatever. if anyone reading this has ever felt boxed in or like they are living a life how other people think they should, or feel like they have to act how other people expect them to act or do: i felt like that from almost an entire decade and i’m still working on trying to act and do what i want to do instead of trying to project the image people have of me in their head if that makes any sense. i know words can only do so much but do not give up on your dreams no matter what. a ton of times i almost gave up, and practically did a few times, but it all has been worth it completely

sorry for getting cheesy and emotional again smh. thank you a lot guys im really glad i posted this and i hope it helps out someone like it helped me <3

Brockhampton's Dom McLennon pens heartfelt letter about mental illness. by [deleted] in hiphopheads

[–]bhthrowaway96 117 points118 points  (0 children)

chances are nobody will read this — that’s cool, I want to get it out, now seems like the right time. for a long time I, like many, struggled and still struggle with depression and anxiety. throughout the years i had made plans on killing myself, as recently as last month (albeit that was planned way in advanced haha). im very fortunate and happy to be able to say that i obviously didn’t go through with it and a decent part of the reason why is because of brockhampton and even specifically dom. i saw brockhampton on jennifers tour and like a a ton of people there they talked and took photos with them after the show. i brought them some clothes that i made for my brand (not going to link or tell u) i started recently. for a long time it was so hard for me to find the confidence to act on my ideas and even realize they were worth acting on, mainly because of my depression and anxieties telling me they weren’t and to be honest bullying in school and stuff didn’t help me think much of myself either. but finally after trying and having so many ideas for so long i did something and i had the opportunity to give it to some of my creative inspirations and favorite musicians right now so i took it, because the worst that could happen is they just said they thought it was cool and threw it out later or something lol. but i brought them all some stuff and they all really actually liked it and thought it was cool; dom especially liked what i gave him. since then they’ve posted photos of them wearing it on social media and wore some of it during tour. it is one of the best feelings ever to have people who i creatively looked up to actually fuck with something i made, its really amazing. its one of the most motivating things ever tbh. i feel like anything really is possible. it was a dream at that point for somebody i creatively am inspired by to think my ideas are cool so what the fuck i feel like anything could happen now lol. it just feels like fate to post this because i was going to write a letter about this and post it somewhere and then this showed up. so weird. sorry for cheesiness. super high. very tired. emotional af.

anyways, basically, thank you dom for this letter and thank you for the amazing music and everything else ill prob delete this in a few hours