I’ve been really enjoying more acoustic guitar based indie folk lately. Some of my top albums of the moment have been Crack Up by Fleet Foxes, Yellow House by Grizzly Bear, For Emma by Bon Iver and Among the Leaves by Sun Kil Moon. I’d like more recommendations for albums that are folky but still very dark and somber.
I’ve lived with my roommate for two and a half years and we were really good friends before we moved in together. I always knew he had bipolar disorder and was prone to mood swings but he had been on medication and in therapy for a while and he seemed pretty stable except for when he would use drugs. He quit drinking and greatly reduced his intake of recreational drugs as of late but there was still what I saw as a bad precedent that was set which was the fact that he seemed to always put his emotional weight on me when he was going through something.
I consider myself to be a pretty empathetic person and will help my fiends when I’m able but I’m generally uncomfortable with being relied on for someone’s emotional/mental state. Lately there has been a lot of guilt tripping for not inviting him some places or being at home to hang out with him when I have work or school, plus he has trouble with keeping up with chores and cleaning up after his cat.
A few days ago, he had a mental health crisis and threatened to c*mmit s*icide and I had to rush home in the middle of work to check on him and wait with him until his partner arrived to help him get impatient treatment.
Basically, I’m thinking about moving out in the next few months because I’m in need of a living situation where my peace of mind is protected, but I also feel like I’ll be made out to be the bad guy who abandoned him in the eyes of our mutual friends.