Need to watch all music videos from the album, that tells the whole story, not what you think
Great video about Shinedown. You may be interested to know the entire album (Attention Attention) on which this song is found is a concept album where every song is devoted to exploring a different aspect of mental health, the ups and downs, the darkness and the hope. You’d probably appreciate the significance of what they accomplished with that album, as a therapist.
My monster is very real and terrifies me on a level most don’t understand
i always took this song as the fight of ptsd. the fact so many veterans do take themselves out. the monsters are will and sometimes when and it stops your pain but hurts everyone else in the end.
the shot of liquid courage to go through with the action of the burlap on the table.
choosing my words cus youtube, but i see some other comments about the meaning of the lady and the girl being on in the same, infidelity and or the guy in the grave is the monster. but i never really saw it like that. i saw it as the lady is the mom and the new man is the monster but shes so wrapped up in the loss of her husband that shes blind to the monster she is with. but i can also see it was cheating and maybe the new guy is still a monster but the cheating is what pushed him over the edge dealing with what he had done over seas.
My monsters are so real I have suffered from severe depression PTSD and social anxiety for many years put on tired of all the medicine I just want to smile again
SYMPTOM OF BEING HUMAN!! Please 
Me and my monsters have an understanding. I can’t beat them, but they’ll never beat me either. We keep a respectable distance from each other.
I took my daughter to Shinedown in 2023. Seen them in the beginning days also. I can relate to their music. They speak on addiction, and mental health. Been there, done that! They put on a hell of a show!
Daylight by Shinedown would be an amazing song for you to review!
More shinedown please!!! P.S you should watch just him and Zach Myers do this acoustic he gives a killer speech about what encouraged him to write this song
I went to therapy for 8 years and that’s the best way to be in contact with your monsters.
his MONSTERS are not people he knows. His monsters are his own “monsters” AND they are real
Once I realized my monster’s only goal was to kill me, I learned how to put it in a cage, respect it, and take my life back. Life is so much better now and I have a wife & kids together me purpose.
Im already tearing up before the song even started. This was my first live band at Live stock,he bought me a beer then got on stage and belted out “Save me”
This song really resonated with me as somebody who had a traumatic brain injury at 3 years old. I grew up having to go through behavioral cognition therapy and going to empathy classes because they were afraid that I was going to become a serial killer. If you do the research I think it’s something like 72% of serial killers had a traumatic brain injury. The part of my brain that was crushed is the part that feels empathy or remorse and it’s also the part that helps you choose right from wrong. so I grew up my whole life thinking I was going to become a monster and thankfully I turned out pretty okay compared to what they made it seem like I could become. I did have some incidences when I was younger but my father put me in martial arts and I was able to hone that discipline into something positive. now I have a second job teaching kids how to do Brazilian jiu Jitsu after training for 20 years myself. But man sometimes those monsters try to rear their ugly heads still. As far as the generational trauma thing I definitely noticed it with my father and how he was always so aggressive and yelled all the time and would smack the shit out of me and my little brother and then as I became a man I realized that it was all he ever knew from his dad and I told myself when my son was born that I was never going to do those things that would upset me with my father… now as I’ve gotten older my grandfather and my father are both very important dear people in my life but we also have to recognize that trauma is real even if you still love those people and unfortunately a part of him is part of me and I had to weed that trauma out of my own DNA . This song is just beautiful and I feel like we all can relate to it on some level no matter how small or great that may be.
That stank face though!..
All Monsters are real, we all just have to unlock the secrets to defeating or at the very best, how to subdue them.
Don’t know what it means but when I used to drugs my monsters became real.
We can’t just talk about our monsters. That only keeps the energy of them alive. We have to find a way to truly move past what created them. I’ve been working on that for forever. I got a bachelors in psychology thinking it would help me. Nope. And therapists just want you to relive the pain, that does not move you past it. My monsters could surely kill. It’s easy for people to talk about forgiveness because it releases you from what happened, but that is not true. It doesn’t wipe away the memories and the pain. I’ve gotten somewhat better but I still have triggers. If anyone knows the secret to truly moving past it all, please let me know.
It’s not that he’s not a good guy. As a Veteran who spent 6 years in Iraq and Afghanistan and attempted suicide. Veterans suffer from PTSD, survivors guilt, and many other issues, this guy just couldn’t hang on anymore. Which is where I was till I got help and met a women that accepted me and helped me. The dreams and monsters never go away, you just learn to live with them.