{"id":15247,"date":"2017-08-18T20:49:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T01:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/?p=15247"},"modified":"2017-09-30T21:02:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T02:02:11","slug":"passion-pits-michael-angelakos-introduces-new-album-and-becomes-an-advocate-for-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bostonsurvivalguide.net\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/passion-pits-michael-angelakos-introduces-new-album-and-becomes-an-advocate-for-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos introduces new album and becomes an advocate for mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit; photo by Jean Claude B<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s brave to write from the heart and let strangers learn about your inner thoughts and insecurities. It’s braver still to openly discuss your life honestly, in an effort to help others. Michael Angelakos has “come out” (so to speak), shedding his front man role in Passion Pit<\/a><\/strong> and his focus on being a commercial artist to become a highly visible advocate for those with mental health issues. To coincide with the release of Tremendous Sea of Love<\/a><\/strong>, he has founded The Wishart Group<\/a><\/strong>, an artist-driven organization focused on developing “programs and services that better serve and promote the mental, physical, financial, and creative well-being of artists.”<\/p>\n

The group will be bringing together professionals from all disciplines, from researchers and scientists to lobbyists and advocates, to generate funding for mental health research, develop healthcare for artists, support new therapeutic treatments for mental illness and more. To introduce this campaign, he has been sharing his personal struggles with bipolar disorder, including this interview with NPR<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n