Health & Wellbeing

Mental health and wellbeing column: perfection isn't everything

In Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama's first column, director of music Tim Rhys-Evans offers a personal reflection on the relationship between music and mental health.
 Tim Rhys-Evans
Tim Rhys-Evans - Kirsten McTernan

Tim Rhys-Evans is the director of music at RWCMD, a renowned choir master, founder of The Aloud Charity, and in 2013 he was awarded an MBE for services to music. He's a passionate advocate for wellbeing in the music industry and his award-winning 2016 BBC documentary, All in the Mind, explored his experience of mental health breakdown, depression and suicide.

It was only when I was in hospital and the clinical psychologist asked me about my hobbies that it became glaringly obvious that I didn't have one anymore – it had always been music. In the last 30 years, I hadn't realised that nothing had filled the space where music had been.

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