Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
Seasonal affective disorder may not be your typical inspiration for a song, but when Maya was a teenager, she was trying to understand her feelings.
Seasonal depression's got me sleeping off the days and we've wasted all our time feeling great.
That's Maya, who also goes by the name MxM Toon.
She's a singer songwriter from California.
She doesn't use her last name publicly to protect the privacy of her family.
And I was feeling sad looking outside, seeing that the weather was really bad and that it was dark outside.
Like, just lying there for hours and hours, not knowing how to get out of bed and move or do anything.
And it just makes it really difficult to do basic, normal things, like getting up and going to eat a meal or going to drink water or even using the bathroom.
And she wrote that song when she was a teenager, trying to understand her dark feelings during the winter.
Being 16 at the time, Maya turned to social media.
I went on Twitter and I was like, am I crazy?
Because I feel really sad right now and the weather is really horrible and.
I don't like it.
And people are like, that sounds like you have seasonal affective disorder.
It's, like, sad, and you should look into it.
So I talked to my parents.
They were like, yeah, that's also something that I experience and go through and talk to my friends, and they're like, yeah, it's also something that I go through.
And I just realized that everybody feels horrible.
Weather outside also makes you feel horrible inside.