Suffer In Silence #21

"Suffer In Silence" was a record that was originally intended to be on my forthcoming album, I'm Tired of Being Hypersurveilled", but I chose to take it off because I felt like this song stood better alone. Being a first generation Ethiopian-Eritrean growing up in Takoma Park, MD, it was normal to not speak much on the things we dealt with internally; whether it's due to not wanting to burden anyone, not wanting to be labeled with any stigma, not wanting to appear weak, or simply not having anyone to talk to. We don't say what is wrong, until it is way too late. We hold back on saying what we want, or the way we would like things to be. I used to suffer with substance abuse and suicidal tho...View all