Therapist Reacts to Yen by Slipknot

[@szen2869]

Your reactions/analysis is the best thing I've discovered on KZbin in a long time

[@jillryan6643]

Yen also means a strong desire, propensity, urge and/or craving

[@mondochild]

To yearn

[@JMulvy]

Yes, he did switch up the lyrics at the end to "I know that I had died for you - I'll die for you" which sounds to me like although they recognize what they were doing to the relationship, they still reverted to their old victim mentality in the end because now they feel attacked.

[@stevefilley9765]

What has me hooked. Is reading the hardcore fans comments. You people are the real deal. So much more intelligence than any other fan base. My hats off to you all. 😊😊😊

[@lesleydavis6511]

Corey said that Yen is an old form of Yearning and it was about his wife and how she bought out things in him he didn’t think he was capable of

[@andrewsanchez7950]

Wow. I’m blown away and realize how I’ve also been using my pain as a currency. Not intentionally. But I can see how I used it as a tool. When I too caused pain. I can see my hypocrisy. But I also now feel like I can express myself differently without using accusatory guilt to make my point. I hope we all get through the hard times. I’m glad channels like these exists.

[@IsThatReallyTone]

React to “Disasterpieces” off of their Iowa album. In your first Slipknot reaction video you said you were expecting a certain sound from them. That song will give you Slipknot at their most brutal and aggressive. It’s definitely their best album. 🤘🏼

[@mikeg7242]

Disasterpiece helped save my life

[@metalmayhem8947]

Would love to hear your take on Disaterpiece @HeartSupport

[@Unstoppable-Trumpy-Bear]

YEEESSSSS WE ABSOLUTELY NEED THIS 🤘🤘🤘

[@caseysivard4070]

I just want her to analyze that opening line

[@FlyinGuy25]

@HeartSupport Thank you! I requested this yesterday, and have been trying to figure it out. I’ve had an internal struggle with personal growth and I relate to most Slipknot songs. Unsainted was a big one, and your breakdown made a lot of sense to me. This is one of my favorite songs, A Liars Funeral and Vermillion are up there as well.

[@PNW-Twelve]

These are the best Slipknot reactions I've watched yet. I wish I would have discovered this channel sooner.

[@lonestar3433]

Therapist, you're awesome! You love analyzing their songs. I like your dance moves too.

[@michaelwilliams3554]

"HI REN" will be different than anything you have done, super powerful message for therapist.

[@YTsupportsZionaziGenocide]

Yen is Japanese currency, Yuan is Chinese currency.

[@mediumvillain]

For the purposes of this song Yen is an archaic term for an obsessive need, particularly used for opium addiction

[@YTsupportsZionaziGenocide]

@mediumvillain I was correcting the therapist, who said yen was chinese currency, not giving the meaning behind the song.

[@darthpaul490]

​@@YTsupportsZionaziGenocide....its "yuan"

[@joaoaugustolandim]

Yaun is when you're sleepy and your body without reason makes you open your mother really wide open. Yuan is the chinese currency.

[@YTsupportsZionaziGenocide]

@@joaoaugustolandim technically that would be yawn... but yeah i had the vowel backwords. apparently "yaun" means "sexual"... good to know....lol

[@JMulvy]

"because If I am the victim then it is not my responsibility to change. It is your responsibility". She never said it in so many words but holy shit did she ever convey the message constantly in our relationship. Sadly, we both used pain as currency over each other. The difference now is that she still thinks she is the victim, that she is always the victim and I refuse to let myself be victimized any longer. Twenty-three years was long enough. ❤‍🩹

[@SpencerRaySanders]

Thank you so much for this dissection of the song. This was my theme song for the first three months of 2023. I was fired from my job, my girlfriend dumped me, and then my grandmother died from cancer. The pain I experienced through those events led me to growth and being a stronger person. Side note: The toy piano segment is not on the studio track and was recorded just for the music video.

[@MetalMikeOfficial]

First off, I love your interpretation of the song! I can most certainly relate in that sense! On the other hand, though Corey actually said in an interview with Metal Hammer that this was a love song for his wife and that the term “Yen” is derivative of the slang, which means yearning! 🖤

[@creteman_du_var]

I was about to say that ! Corey literally stated that it is a dark weird love song. To each his own interpretation but personally I think this song is truly about the desire you can develop for the person you love, almost like from a masochist POV wich makes it so mesmerizing

[@jboogie42012]

I love the way you break down songs the alternate perspectives are really good thank you!

[@lesleydavis6511]

Yen is by far my favourite on the album 🙏

[@brodybouillion1750]

It’s Corey’s relationship with music as a whole it’s like a part 2 of kill pop

[@_Cotter]

Everything ends by slipknot I think you'll like it

[@Malcontent1333]

Slipknot and it's lyrics are a very human experience. I'm so happy she got it in the end. pointing the finger after the fact is very much Slipknot.

[@dancooke8811]

Yeah, but in this case they aren't 'pointing the finger' at others! Just themselves!

[@Malcontent1333]

​@@dancooke8811they've done that in a number of tracks.

[@Amocoru]

I always heard this song as a positive song. Like he'd finally found someone worth giving his life to. Worth dying for. He wants to feel like in his dying breath he gave her everything he had. He died fighting for her until the last breath.

[@KristaHubbard]

Yeah, and it’s not just the name of money and currency. It also means it’s a yearning for some one or something and I’ll guarantee you he knows that other definition because the man is a freaking genius.

[@EcksPhyvWun]

i related to the song in multiple ways. completely opposite from yours. relating it to a relationship of 12 years i had. the pain reminding me i was alive. believing i was so in love it hurt. that was just the "cost" for such a thing. two sides of the same coin. it still translated well in my heart anyway. post relationship and some years later however, i related to it much closer to how you have in a healing manner. i basically destroyed myself, and happily so, in all ways i possibly could. be it psychologically, bodily, friends, family, monetarily, ANYTHING i could sacrifice as a "currency". for ways to make her happy. she never even had to ask but still i was just driven to do so at my own detriment. then and even now, she says i made her happy, so i was as well. after some years there were times (more than i would like to admit now, hindsight is a bitch as we all know lol) she wounded me deeply during VERY important moments to me. endless senseless excuses not to travel (years before 2020) to meet my mother for the first time even on her death bed. basically moments that would seemly be little to no sacrifice from her part. my willing sacrifices never once bothered me, even without her efforts to budge. till i became extremely sick and was in and out of a coma for 3 months followed by the side effects and having to learn how to walk again in my 30s being one of the worst. she helped nurse me back enough so i could fend for myself basically, then she left. years later, she has still not given an even remotely satisfactory answer to why. sure i and any others who know the tale can speculate plenty but cant confirm any. maybe she was "keeping score" the whole time and thought she was doing me a favor /shrug so OBVIOUSLY ive had of grief and even now PLENTY of lingering anger. and now relate much differently to the "sacrifices" mentioned in this song. side note: there is still plenty left out from the story. i was far from perfect in the relationship am clearly loaded with flaws of my own. LOL i wanted to call this a TLDR of the whole story but it still ended up just being a babbling ranting overshare it turns out. XD obviously still a TINY bit sour ;D anyway just super happy to know others love so many of the same songs and artists i do for similar reasons. music has been a wonderful mistress and truly a faithful and ever giving companion.

[@timhix588]

Alice in chains - down in a hole please!!!!! I just subbed i love ur analysis on these lyrics ive been listening to for years!

[@feduwtc]

you should react to snuff if you didnt, it is one of their softer songs and yet is the hardest of Slipknot entire carreer at thr same time due to the lyrics, corey also said this song reminds him a lot of Paul Gray because he was the one who saw a huge potential on that song

[@mattstrawser5907]

Incredible and helpful interpretations for helping people that are struggling.

[@Yahirplaysminecraft]

I think yen is sort of the spiritual successor to an early song called "prosthetics." A great song I think you should rect to next.

[@ET22allen]

Damn I love your reaction and what you said about the feelings and what we can see and cannot see ! This channel is so pure and interesting. The approach is genius to desiccate the lyrics with a therapist point of view, its explain so much!! You seem so passionate when you speak, we can listen to you for hours, it's always pertinent, truthful and interesting Thank you for your work 🙌🏻

[@VolBeat2412.]

I always loved the detail of unmasked Corey in the video. idk, it’s a cool concept.

[@jamesgreer9366]

Listen to the end of the song again, and just know the pain that comes through as a small child curled up in a ball just listening to something that soothed them!! At one point in time! Music is a blessing! All there is too it! My son to be fiance and I share a song with each other everyday! Doesn't matter about genre, and until 2 months ago, when I started showing her reaction videos, even the ones where they do t like the song at all, she's starting to understand why I like them!! Watch some shit with some other people, and can't really argue with them, just a long for the same ride!!❤😂😢

[@dreamcaster359]

Not sure if you take suggestions from comments or not, but a song that rarely gets discussed in regards to mental health is Plastic Man from Seether. The song's written about the brother of the guitarist/lead singer who was struggling with depression at the time and sadly took his own life a couple years after the album the song was on released.

[@user-bd7tu2ms6h]

You’re the best! Keep killin it! 🤘🏼

[@CK-ji4bh]

I love this song. Never had any idea what it might even be about. Nice perspective on it!

[@kapteenikalsarikanni8408]

Hi, love your vids! Could you react to Slipknot Vermilion or Vermilion pt2? Those are really same song but different vibes and styles. The song is about distance in society. The song is based on the caracter who imagined her perfect soulmate which doesnt exist. The song video showing her soulmate reflecting his self through her. The butterfly meaning is the symbol of immortality of his imaginery soulmate in his mind which he will never find

[@Fire-sf7kv]

I'm amazed that you can listen to so many Slipknot songs on Apple EarPods. I listen to their music with wireless headphones (Sony WH-1000), and many people say that their sound is better than Apple's, but I still don't get the quality of sound that I want, so I prefer using wired headphones for more technically demanding music.

[@cd9126]

Wow. I always enjoyed this song from like, a BDSM perspective, and im not gonna lie, at first I was like nooo you dont get it, but the more I listened the more i started to relate to how you interpreted it and saw entirely too many connections to my own life. Luckily, I am on a path of growth right now because I finally became aware of the cycle of trauma and am focused on trying to break it for myself. Every day I make new connections from what Ive been through to who I am and what I need to do for myself to heal. Thanks for opening my eyes a little more today.

[@Jan_Seidel]

This is maybe not metal in essence but I think you will *LOVE* this one as therapist 🤩

[@KristaHubbard]

I actually have this song on repeat like half the time because I have a tendency to end up in abusive relationships so instead of being in relationships, I find controlled pain through BDSM because you're right it gets to a point where we need the pain. And I do this until the need for it is gone. I grew up in trauma and have my bs in psych and I still have tons of work to do on myself. Look up maclaren hall lawsuit in la. That is only one example. But for me the well dressed people in suites not wearing mask are the dominant people and everyone wearing mask are the submissive in the slaves because we were beneath the dominance and our identities their identity they want us to have that’s what I get from that video and believe it or not it doing that helps me find myself forth after I leave an abusive relationship or get it to be around my family too muchI don’t understand how that works

[@robertpanek5944]

Well... from what I know it's about there being nothing in society to die for. But your interpretation is good too.

[@ballplayer4301]

That energy at 2:20 🔥😂

[@nataliemartin437]

Please, please do KillPop!!! One of my favorites!

[@kaceylinne344]

keep up the amazing work i love how into the music you get. more songs by slipknot would be sic, surfacing, spit it out, people = shit, the heretic anthem, aov, killpop, nero forte. should also checkout stuff from the singer corey taylor's other band stone sour as well as his solo stuff more singing less screaming and growls. from stone sour: bother, through glass, 30/30-150, made of scars, digital (did you tell), say you'll haunt me, gone sovereign/absolute zero, tired, do me a favor, song #3, fabuless. from solo stuff: black eyes blue, cmft must be stopped, from can to cant

[@TXBoH]

Wowww spot on. Your reacrtion videos are awesome as is, but this one hits different.

[@cheetos1231000]

"the taste is red and rust" is such an interesting way to describe blood

[@dancooke8811]

Who says he's talking about blood ? Could be lipstick or 🍷 and a his mask/ microphone.

[@prorawdogger1167]

Can you do any falling in reverser, breaking Benjamin or five finger death punch plz. Love this series keep it up!!

[@alainlyrette5208]

Love this song so much

[@shanewatts7328]

Get the point guys. She is hitting the Point.

[@dostoevskysghost4634]

So glad I found your channel.

[@heathenforlove8503]

would be awesome to see you react to some Radiohead

[@reshadd491]

Please react to "Falling away from me" of Korn, that theme talks about mental issues. thx

[@jochetz2011]

i can relate to every slipknot song

[@gabrielstratton1775]

Yen can also mean longing. "As my death begins, i want to know that i would die for you" Meaning he wants a partner he would be willing to die for..... there are always many ways to look at the meaning of songs

[@Javier_hernadez]

Me gustas y me gusta tu amor por Slipknot ❤

[@nickroschnow2802]

I relate to this a lot I feel like if things are going too well then something's not right that there has to be some kind of turmoil in order for things to feel comfortable because throughout my entire childhood I was surrounded by physical abuse drugs and alcohol

[@HeartSupport]

From ThriceTheThird: @nickroschnow2802 Well I hope things are going well for you now! Even if there is that uncertainty of whether or not it is okay for things to be going well. Thank you for sharing how you relate with us. I hope you are having a wonderful day today!

[@HeartSupport]

From taylor: @nickroschnow2802 Hey friend, Thanks for reaching out here. It's so common for people who grow up with turmoil to feel a little bit discombobulated when things are going well. It feels like you're waiting for the other shoe to drop, because that's all you ever knew when you were growing up. Things being bad became familiar. So although you didn't WANT those bad things to happen, it was what you were used to, so you became comfortable in the discomfort. And now when things are good it feels hard to trust that they would stay good, because they never have in the past. Recognizing this about yourself is a HUGE step toward healing. Awareness is the first step toward change. I'm so sorry that you were surrounded by abuse and addiction as you were growing up, that's not fair, and it's not the environment any child deserves. I'm so proud of you for being able to recognize the ways that growing up in that environment impacts the way you experience the present. It's really hard to come to this realization, and to have this awareness gives you more currency to use toward your healing. Sending love

[@HeartSupport]

From Micro: @nickroschnow2802 Thank you so much for sharing this here, friend. Somehow, this is particularly relatable to me, and it's always comforting to know that someone out there gets it - even if I wish you didn't experience any aversity as you grew up. Somehow, there's this feeling of finding comfort in chaos, right? It's as if chaos and turmoil were your default state, and anything that transforms it feels odd, uncertain, like an unknown territory for your mind. Which makes sense when you think about it: as a child, you've learned to be familiar in a chaotic/adverse environment. It has built standards that you've learned to accept in order to survive. As an adult though, you have the possibility to be in different environment and experience different ways to be. It challenges what you've already known and have learned to be familiar with. It makes sense that, even now it's difficult to take objectively good or healthy things/events/people as being suspicious and to be questioned. Too good to be real. But you are aware of this process, of this dichotomy within, of how the "good" seems labeled as "bad", and the "bad" as good. If anything it makes completely sense to experience this contradiction given the environment you've known as a child. The very fact that you are aware of this pattern at play is huge, and such a great sign of your own growth and resilience. X years ago you may have not been aware of this way to view things, at least maybe not with such an acute and detailed understanding. What was learned can be unlearned, and thankfully you haveand will keep having the possibility to reinvent yourself, away from the abuse you've known and suffered. I believe in you wholeheartedly, and I belive in your ability to learn to welcome good things in your life and embrace them without feeling too guilty, too weary of it either. You got this, friend. :heart:

[@Doofster]

This channel needs more Mudvayne

[@thewaywardone6869]

Would love to see a breakdown/reaction of Skeptic.

[@ionutpop7671]

Hi ! Could you listen to Sean by Trophy Eyes ? It's the most devastating song about suicide I've ever heard and I'd love to see you react to it.

[@lilwoowoowoozie9242]

you should check out 'Coming Down' by FFDP (I know therapists always say you don't have to say 'TW' but I'm putting one anyway) and 'Inside The Fire' by Disturbed (another TW) and 'Make It Stop' by Rise Against all talk about suicide

[@setroth2722]

Please do motionless in white Burned at both ends 2❤

[@o7kev]

You should react to Left Behind and Til we Die! 🤟

[@GP80888]

If you haven’t reacted to Daddy by Korn. I would really like to hear your analysis of that song.

[@garyd0002]

Please react to Likin Park Giving Up, love the reactions btw 😊

[@Beefyy_]

You should react to orphan or spiders by slipknot

[@princessparrots]

Definitely orphan. Maybe even red flag?

[@markschmidt4857]

Yen is the Japanese currency, but great video it helps.

[@thebtman3929]

Check out remembering never - Allison’s song

[@b.b.4192]

Sister is a fan

[@RiddledReality]

You should react to -the virus of life by slipknot.

[@HankTheTank78]

Disasterpiece from Slipknot will take you on a heck of a ride. Would be worth a gander at some point.

[@justadude1331]

The victim mentality gives someone power because they no longer have to have any accountability for themselves and their own actions. If you don't always make yourself the victim you're more likely to look inward and fix your own shortcomings and behaviors first.

[@pablotitlavazquez5075]

Yen = Yearning

[@kennethdavis125]

Please react to Enterprise Earth-Teeth and Blood. Please please. I need to know more about this song it emotes so much

[@ernanpena1653]

Please please please do disasterpiece live 2002 or people = sh*t live 2002 or even heretic anthem again live 2002 lol

[@Zack-lt4fl]

Please react to Given up, lost or crawling by Linkin Park. All super deep songs.

[@notsure9853]

❤✊️

[@Bonz-vc8zd]

Yen is Japanese. Which is why before the video came out, I thought it was about a Japanese soldier committing sacrificial suicide for his country before he is captured.

[@EricGarbin-mx3vb]

So true 🤤

[@amilynne1604]

My personal opinion is that he is not using the term “yen” to mean currency. It’s to mean a yearning, desire or urge for something or someone.

[@germanotto1615]

Can you reacto "Left behind" from slipknot?

[@damonlong5712]

You need to watch From can to can't by Corey Taylor you will enjoy it I promise you please 🙏🏻 ❤️

[@frekazoidgamer]

Parece musica daqueles filmes de terror macabro estilo pânico na floresta ou haloween , estilo esses filmes dos anos 2000 , eles sempre tocam musicas com esse estilo sombrio kkkkkkkk mas é isso mesmo que a musica se refere , a um relacionamento tóxico que a vitima sempre usa isso como moeda .

[@bigtimofy]

Last Caress - Misfits

[@DanielAyala-i7e]

React to asking Alexandria.❤

[@Rignite1801]

Great breakdown of the song!

[@phenixfire513]

The dying song is the second part to this song do that one next

[@deathsangel09]

Like to see reaction to Kim Dracula

[@jamespovanda9967]

You should dive into somgs that domt have videos to they have a lot more to give

[@shawncocker9699]

👍🏼

[@battlebarren]

I'm pretty sure you did not see this part coming 6:26

[@luvqraft6024]

Those lyrics are totally borderline.

[@rikoset777]

React to Tool - Vicarious. There is more in this world than Slipknot you know 😁

[@luko.royale]

enough slipknot for now, how about some Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized :D

[@danieljoaohluzhernandez8805]

Solway firth pls

[@felipeseniceros2734]

Listen to shade astray by invent animate

[@fabianochitescu8922]

Pls react to "do nothing/bichslap"

[@Life_IsPeachy]

Kill You by Korn.

[@raymondmurdock8603]

@heartsupport This is probably a super corny interpretation but I always thought of this song like a conversation between me and my eating disorder that I personify as a coping mechanism (and literally romanticize as in pretending he's my gay lover LMAO) EDdy as I call him is the sin I've been waiting the hands around my neck I want to give him all of my joy and pleasures and I'm willing to die for him because I feel like I need and deserve and even crave the pain and suffering and I need to sacrifice enough to be worthy in his eyes even though I know it will never be enough and the only way I can be worthy is if I choose to value my worth because EDdy doesn't even exist LMAO but I've been living in this maladaptive Daydream for the last 20 years so it's hard to walk away

[@HeartSupport]

From tromboness: @raymondmurdock8603 Thanks for sharing your experience with us! And your interpretation is not corny; it is very relatable. Dealing with ED is not an easy task, especially for as long as you have. There can be conflicted feelings about it too. You know it's not a healthy practice, but you crave what it gives you. I commend you in recognizing that you don't need to feel worthy from EDdy. You are worthy to live a healthy life because you exist. Hold Fast.

[@HeartSupport]

From Micro: @raymondmurdock8603 This is definitely a strong interpretation, and I'm personally so thankful you chose to share it. Just because it makes a LOT of sense, and even though it may feel like something you are struggling with on your own, the way you describe this can be very relatable to other people who have been through something similar. Having struggled with eating disorders for roughly 15 years now, I defiintely resonate with what you say. Even though I have not personified my ED, I've heard other people who did. Somehow, it's a powerful way to separate thestruggle from *you* as a unique individual. It highlights the subtle difference for example between saying "I am depressed", and "I struggle with depression". The struggle happens to be a part of your life, of your journey, of your thoughts... but it does not define *you* as a person, and even less your worth. To me ED always felt like something I had to live with too. It's not me, but it's also such a significant part of me at the same time. I can't escape it, yet I can "dialogue" with it. I know it by heart yet I keep falling into its hands over and over. It's so hard when there is this double dialogue in you, these two voices battling almost all the time. One that knows rationally that you have worth even if you may not feel like it... and one that is this call to darkness, to diving deep into your struggles and surrendering to self-destruction. It's hard as the second one always feels so right and powerful *at the moment*. But it's always a response in the moment, a repeated cycle that doesn't bring your perspectives for the future. It feels as if it leaves you stuck living the same day on repeat. EDdy is not your enemy as it is a part of you that, somehow, is trying to tell you something about what your heart needs the most. But the language he speaks and the messages he give you are not the right ones. He's displaying *hurt* and wounds that needto be cared for, but he identified ways to respond to this pain that are not serving you - on the contrary. It's the paradox of having such an "ally" in our life. It soothes, gives illusion of control, make us feel like darkness and pain are *safe* while good things are not. But as you said so well, what he needs and feeds from will never be enough. He is stuck in the same patterns and serves only one purpose. You, on your side, are *so much more* than he is. To me personally, trying to see and hear what was behind my ED, depression and PTSD is what helped me the most. I stopped seeing them as allies or enemies, but as *voices* that were expressing a pain that needed to be said. My role was then to re-learn how to respond to it appropriately, how to re-parent myself, how to meet them with *kindness*, how to meet my own heart with gentleness. It's a tough journey when we've been so used to see our worth in the act of destroying our selves. But oh man, it's one journey that is so worth walking on. Even if it feels like a rollercoaster, even if it feels uncomfortable, even if it doesn't feel *right* sometimes... any step taken towards helping/supporting/encouraging yourself to be safe and to not need EDdy anymore, is worth it. He exists because he has a job, but that role may be clearly outdated now, and you are allowed to walk towards freeing yourself from him, while recognizing while he had to exist. I believe in you.:heart:

[@any1gottadollar241]

React to something super intense like SPITE caved in

[@RussellBirch-i2e]

Not about a relationship for me

[@eriuz]

look for happiness is overrated by letdown

[@briankirchner2634]

No he is talking about his wife not being in pain. Ultimately he will die for his wife.