Rachel Platten - Bad Thoughts (Official Music Video)
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Stream "Bad Thoughts" on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music and more: stem.ffm.to/badthoughts
Bad Thoughts by Rachel Platten
Produced By: Rachel Platten, Jason Evigan, Gian Stone and Nick Lee
Written By: Rachel Platten, Kyan Palmer and Nick Lee
Video Credits //
Written by: Rachel Platten
Directed by: Jade Ehlers & Brooke Harcrow
Director of Photography: Gabe Kimpson
Production Coordinator: Izzy Lux
Gaffer: Zach Garcia
1st Assist Camera: Tony Hart
Best Boy Grip: Caleb Czuszak
Wardrobe: Cristina Acevedo
HMU: Lyndsey Zavitz
Assist MU: Scotia Boyd
Production Assistant: Ari Arroyo
Video editor: Zoé Kraft
Colorist: Jade Ehlers
PA/BTS: Nick Whitmill
Red Light Management: Jared Rosenberg & Ashley Arendt
If you're struggling, in a crisis or need help, call 988 today.
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LYRICS:
Breathe in… breathe out… (spoken)
Can someone tell me I'm not going crazy
the thoughts in my head make me hate me
Maybe I’m too far from saving
Can someone check that the room isn't spinning
Seems like the oxygens thinning
The monsters in my head keep on winning
I’m bigger than the bad thoughts
I’m better than the way the way they make me feel
I won’t let the bad thoughts take the wheel
I’m bigger than the bad thoughts
I’m brighter than the light they’re trying to steal
So why do they feel so real
Breathe in… breathe out… (spoken)
Sometimes I don’t like the cards that I’m handed
Life can seem too hard to manage
I’m proud of myself for just standing
When light feels too real that the door shuts on reasons
Voice in my heads preys on my biggest weakness
I count my breath 1, 2, 3 , 4
I’m bigger than the bad thoughts
I’m better than the way the way they make me feel
I won’t let the bad thoughts take the wheel
I’m bigger than the bad thoughts
I’m brighter than the light they’re trying to steal
So why do they feel so real
When I know they’re not real
Breathe in… breathe out… (spoken)
Just cause I think something don’t make it true
Been here before but I’ve gotten through
Maybe not now but I’ll be okay soon x2
I’m bigger than the bad thoughts
I’m brighter than the light they’re trying to steal
I won’t let the bad thoughts take the wheel
I’m bigger than the lone nights
I’m brighter than the light they’re trying to steal
So why do they feel so real
I know they’re not real
Bad thoughts aren’t real
Imma be alright x24
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Military veteran here. All I can say is so many of your songs resonate with me as I'm dealing with PTSD. Thank you so much for putting these out.
@zakattak167 I'm just another fan of Rachel Platten, like yourself - just wanted to tell you thank you for your service 🙏
Thank you so much for your service ❤️
@@nuelasii as I heard recently...you were worth i5
Military wife here, dealing with ptsd from losing my husband 3 months ago. I needed this song, exactly now
Thank you for your service 💙❤️❤
65 years old grown man in tears. Wow hit home. Thank you
get u matey its wonderful
😊😊😊😊😊😅
Ola. Linda. Maravilhosa
Gostaria de vê a tradução dessa canção,mais já me identifiquei achei linda!
Wow, I'm in awe. For anyone who suffers from mental health issues, this can be a hard message to convey, but so necessary and important. Everyone has "Bad Thoughts" now and then, but for someone who is depressed, those bad thoughts can be literally be the difference between life and death. Rachel, thank you for this song. It truly is a gift. Just beautiful. May God Bless you.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Amen
Peace Love Cool
Sitting in my car ... This song just blew me away. The past four years have been nothing but nothing but battles of the mind . Breathe in , Breathe out ❤
I feel like some artists release songs for the fun of it, whereas Rachel writes them to truly help people in need. What a genuine kind therapist 😇🙏
for those of us who survived the abuse as children, the bad thoughts are what our abusers inflicted on us. I was abused from age 3 or 4. That is how I know how real those bad thoughts seem like they are real. Self-discovery, long distance cycling and my brutal discovery that I was never alone led me to discover what self-confidence, esteem and respect are. To those of you who cry when you hear this song; you are not alone' it was never your fault, and it is okay to challenge the bad thoughts with truth and your inner strength. You can stand, you can defend yourself and you can learn to smile, and you can love and be loved. I am proud of all of you.
60-year-old retired military survivor who learned that I could stand at age 50 here.
I love this
❤❤
Rachel Patton did an interview recently about healing from her mental and physical pain; and part of that healing was loving who she is: wrinkles and all. And so she decided to stop doing Botox. As I watch this video and see the normal signs of aging on her that come on all of our faces when we get to a certain age, it makes me like her even more. She’s so beautiful inside and out. Her words help me so much but it’s also nice to see a gorgeous, talented and smart woman age like we are suppose to. Thank you, Rachel.
❤ Linda mensagem! Adorei!!!
😊😊
Amém
That's great but I hope she doesn't think there's anything necessarily wrong with taking Botox especially if you dont want wrinkes. Lofe hits our self esteem enough
This song was literally made to embrace those in their darkest moments. This helps a lot
Love and prayers. This song could only be created by someone who has had to fight their own demons. Thank you and God bless.
Perfect timing! I deal w/ PTSD, and currently in a mental & verbally abusive relationship with a 7 year old autistic daughter. To get out seems impossible. God will make a way. Especially since he showed me that I can take care of all bills and household for roughly 2 years.
Stay strong ❤
Stay strong, hoping for better times for you soon. That time will definitely come xx
The 7 year old is abusing you?
Why does every Rachel Platten song bring a tear to my eye? She's so powerful.
Because it is by the Grace of God that we are not in that same situation.
Dios mandame tus bendiciones
Lately I feel her music is more written for healing than a Grammy. I love it!!!
Which is exactly why it deserves a Grammy.
the time has come....
I listen to this song every single night on repeat. I swear it's saved my life, especially the end. So thankful for music like this.
Yes! The end is so, SO powerful ❤️
Simply beautiful. No pretending just real deep emotions. I’ve always loved and admired your pure honesty. Thank you
Olá. Linda. Maravilhosa
Have this on constant loop. Never has a song captured a panic attack then this. Finally validation.
Thank you for this. Depression is a daily battle for me. Thank you, Rachel, for this song.
Deus em nome do Swnhor jesus Cristo te curará❤
Bad thoughts are normal everyone has them, but what we should all do is look at what God says of us in the Bible. If the one who created us said we are special we should believe it. If you don’t believe all this is real put it to test.
Thankyou Rachel for being vulnerable enough to share your life with us and strong enough to write songs like this. This one moves me, gives words to how I feel... I often struggle with "bad thoughts" because of having a rare type of bipolar spectrum disorder. It's hard to live with the symptoms plus side effects of medication. I know that I will be OK long term. I know that it is a cyclic spiralling pattern of symptoms and I am learning to watch out for the tell-tale symptoms that signal the start of a depression or a manic episode.
Where I have trouble is in the moment when I realise I'm starting to get depressed and can't stop the spiral down, that moment when I catch myself and realise "here I go again"... I'm basically house bound, recovering from being bed bound, with a list of chronic health challenges, on top of the bipolar spectrum disorder. This song shows the see-saw of my mind between the "bad thoughts" and the inner knowing that I will be alright, I can get thru this, I've done it before and will do it again, I'm just tired of the fight. I'm tired of being misunderstood and still having to educate people including doctors about the challenges I face. I'm tired of the every day fight to get out of bed and stay out of bed for more than an hour. But I'm also tired of just how unkind people can be, of politicians and people who have power or money or access to change the world but yet they fight about stupid things, waste time and money on destroying each other, etc.
Your songs give me hope again, hope that each of us can make a difference in our community.
Blessings from South Eastern Australia, Dot
I challenge you to do a test, cook 3 green bananas without the peel, then pass it through the blender, put it in the fridge and eat 3 tablespoons a day 3 times a day, 9 tablespoons in total, and already on the first day you will enjoy the power of the bio mass of the green banana, you will be cured faster than you think, When it's over, repeat again as many times as you need to be
I challenge you to do a test, cook 3 green bananas without the peel, then pass it through the blender, put it in the fridge and eat 3 tablespoons a day 3 times a day, 9 tablespoons in total, and already on the first day you will enjoy the power of the bio mass of the green banana, you will be cured faster than you think, When it's over, repeat again as many times as you need to be
When you dedicate yourself to loving your neighbor automatically, your self-love increases and when your self-love increases you start to love yourself and when you truly love yourself, depression disappears because your heart is full of love and peace
❤@@joseneto7327
This song is simply stunning, I struggle with PTSD + panic attacks and this song helps me get through them. Thank you for helping so many of us with this song Rachel. It means so much to me listening to this song and just knowing I’m not alone ❤️😊🙏.
Olá. Linda. Maravilhosa i
❤😢❤
Hayley, sinta-se amada e cuidada pelo amor maior...Tudo ficará bem...✨
This is beautiful. Thank you for being a mental health advocate by telling your own story.
This song is perfect for Mental Health Awareness Month. Thank you for this beautiful song.
I have OCD and deal with severe intrusive thoughts. I can not even begin to tell you how much this song means to me. Thank you for writing such a beautiful song and being vulnerable enough to share it with us. ❤
RIGHTTT??? oms ... I was like ohhhhh I have those hahahhaha.... also OCD is a mother trucking pain in the booty...I'm very sorry you have to fight w it... but btw you're winning 💥
She took her pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you. You are Amazing just as you are, more beautiful than you can see. You are my Inspiration and Motivation. Love You Rachel.❤❤❤
Ouvindo essa canção levanta a nossa alta estima muito,muito bom isso!
Another beautiful song by Rachel Platten. I wish you all the happiness, Rachel Platten
Just discharged from the hospital for dark thoughts. This video should be played for the patients. Positive message. Thank you from my heart.
Heart hugs and wishing you positive thoughts … I’ll be playing this to my thoughts and I hope you can too 💞 all the best
Glad your out ! 🎉🎉
Keep moving forward. Think positive thoughts and please know that you are loved.
That's so true. I also deal with dark thoughts and this helps me a lot
Mental health RN here, can confirm! This is absolutely something I would play with my struggling patients ❤️
The tears are rolling down my face. I hope this song gets more notice because there is healing power in this song!
very
Olá linda. Maravilhosa
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This is deep and real and raw and just rips into your heart and reverberates until is silences all the little voices.
Wow, such a powerful song ! Brought tears to my eyes. Rachel puts her real emotions into songs. I suffer from PTSD, and depression, it is a difficult fight everyday
you gave to all the mental issues people a song to cry on, thanks you soooooooo much
If this is the REAL Rachel Platten, I want to say THANK YOU. This song really means a lot as we all go through things.
one of the most important songs ever written. Thank you Rachel for putting all of yourself into this song, and kudos to everyone involved in capturing the emotions of panic attacks so accurately in the video! this song is going to be therapy for so many people (myself included over the last half hour!).
Why are Rachel's song lyrics always deep and touching??! I really like her songs, all Rache's songs really beautiful 😣💞💞♥️
Olá. Linda. Maravilhosa
She's incredible. This is exactly what I needed. Thank you God my savior
agree
Rachel is pretty much my therapist. I saw her live and I love her so much! Thank you so much Rachel for helping me through my hard times. You're such a blessing. ❤😭
“brighter than the light they try to steal” ❤🎯🙌🏾
Please give this girl a Grammy
Beautiful song with a powerful message. Thank you Rachel 🤍
I love that more artist are doing songs spotlighting the struggles people go through with mental illness. It's sad that people still don't talk about this serious problem because they don't think anyone will listen or others will downplay it. This song is absolutely beautiful and gives such hopeful vibes.
Please give this girl a Grammy.
Yes!!!😲😼✅️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I know right. Hell she deserves it especially for this song!!
Discerning ABC Grammy to amazing Rachel Platten and the rest with the money along it all for everbody
All she did was saying I'm going to be all right 5000 times Oliver granted I'm going to check it
if this was MTV days and all that evil was going on you could buy on cd and played on tv ... I would have been listening to this and finding Jesus.
I’ve been struggling with postpartum depression and today was one of those days. After my shower this song played & tears just ran down my face. It was what I needed to hear. This song is going to be on repeat🥺❤️
The lyrics , piano, & voice of her, such a beautiful combination & i can say that so touching...She deserve A Grammy
I have gone through very dark times. I still struggle. At the worst of times, your music has been a help for me. ❤
I just discovered this song last week. It means everything to me. It’s my new life anthem. Thank you Rachel.❤
Thank you for this masterpiece Rachel. You deserve a GRAMMY for this😍
So very raw and exquisitely true of our need for God!! Beautiful song
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Something more than a Grammy.
She's saved my stupid little life at least a couple of times...
There should be a bigger award...
Thank you for this song Rachel! You did it again just like with "Mercy" . Ive loved listening to you for years now. Can't wait to hear more!
❤I love this song, I can relate to this song, and this is a good song for me to play for my patients. Thank you Rachel!!!
Much love from uganda 🇺🇬❤ dear Racheal. Thanks for the beautiful song with a beautiful message. Be blessed
We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
You're seeing and listening to one of those humans right now!! Pay attention.
I love this song. Stay strong everyone. Platten' is underrated. ❤
me too
I ran across this video on the Enlightened Divine page and I'm crying the words are so strong and hit so deep. Thank you Angel💕
😭😭😭 THIS is what should have billions of views. We NEED this song, this message, this voice. God is surely all up in this. Beautiful. 💜
I just had the best cry that I’ve had in a very long time ❤
This song showed up when I really needed it. Thank you for your beautiful music!!!
amem
I didnt realize this just came out. I deal with bad depression and every rachel plattens song helps me so much. Specially this song is like therapy for me right now
Struggling with bad thoughts at the moment this song is helping me get through them
I am having a dark day and that song really is helping. Thank you Rachel.
I just stumbled across this song wow the words are so powerful. I have been there. I've had those thoughts in my head. I've had every thought in my head imaginal. They are not a good friend they're not a good companion they are not good. Your words are so powerful thank you for your testimonial song. God has the right moment the right time to show is these things. And even though I say that I've been there. I am no longer there. There is light at the end of the tunnel where there was all darkness. Just breathe and know you are bigger than all those thoughts. But there's someone that is so much bigger than all of that. God! I love your music
Thank you so much for making this song lately i have been having bad thoughts that I've never had before and this helps to know i'm not the only person in the world going through this.
Rachel, you are amazing, there is no song that you make that doesn't come from your soul... you are a beautiful human being. I admire so much your gift, your sing with a beautiful heart and voice. I constantly fight my thoughts and I look for God and beautiful songs like yours to renew myself. A big hug.
I never knew how much I needed a song in my life until I found this song. This has led me to discover the wonderful world of her music and I cherish all of her work.
Rachel, I've been a big fan for a long time, but this song is next level. Your artistic genius combined with such an important topic for our world today... 🤯🥰 May this song be hard across the entire globe! Thank you for this video, it's perfect!
Hi Rachel, this is an amazing song, at my current mental state, it gives me a some hope. I'm still on the edge and feel so hopeless and scared. Your music is very important I love many song you have written and they really hit home. I especially love your songs with the piano or acapella. Thank you for the hope in this song, I'm going to keep listening to it over and over till my hope grows. Thank you for this.
10k likes? 🤔This should have 10M likes with the message it's giving!
Thank you so much for this song. I had literally talked three friends out of dark places this week (seriously, it was a rough week) and part of it was me helping them control their breathes; I had not heard this song until afterwards and when I was giving myself a bit of "me" time. The "breathe in, breathe out" refrain is perfect; it not only gave me perspective on how I try to help my students and friends in need, but was also exactly what I needed to hear after a long week. Thank you.
I was about to make the greatest mistake of my life today... then I realized, it's not worth it. So thank you, this song spoke to me. There's always light at the end of every tunnel. Hang in there...
😭❤️🩹🙏
I suffer from ocd and this song and her openess to her struggle make me feel not so alone. Almost everyday is hard to get through because of the bad thoughts.
Simply W O W ❤
Rachel is so underrated it should be a crime!!
She will not be for long...She is talking the reality of what I teach about the Negative Mind..
Words could not describe this influential voice in the depths of the hearts, and these words that sent a truly beautiful message
I absolutely love the song but can we talk about the camera work? Absolutely amazing at the end how the light comes in and the camera starts moving more. The combination of that and the amazing lyrics has me in tears, absolutely beautiful 💗💗💗😍😍😍
I was just released from a hospital in Colorado for trying to end my life. I’m just now hearing this song. Thank you infinitely for this 🥺💗 this gave me hope, I was inpatient for 3 weeks. I wish they would have played this for me after my attempt. This means the world. Thank you.
It‘s more than just a Song…
My grandpa passed last year and we're selling the house I grew up in. Some days it's really hard not to drown in the sea of sorrow and depression.
I like your song, It's a sweet reminder that everything is gonna be ok.
Who else cryed the first time you heard this song?
Hugs ❤
Each time I hear it bc it reminds me of someone I love with all my heart. ♥️
Who else breathed in and out with her 🥹==>>
👋🏻😃 me!!!!
And held the breath too
I did too. Ii have been telling myself I'm going to be alright
I do
Every time!
Rachel you are Awesome. Thank you so very very much . I have listened to this beautiful song at least 5 times today. I am struggling with persistent depressive disorder, intermittent major depression and anxiety. I am getting bad thoughts in my head every day.
When I do listen to this song I actually do the breathing exercises and and telling myself I am bigger and better than my bad thoughts thank you again Rachel. I hope to some day meet you in person to thank you
Thank you.Thank you, for putting each of our “BadThoughts “ in a song that helps to heal our hearts 💖 our feelings be spoken and be sung and be experienced in our actual body . ALL of us have bad thoughts . We need to love that sameness that each of us have. -until we do it won’t be equal - it’s a 🔥 until we get there, people ARE suffering unimaginable horrors. …… but it’s starting. That is something to hang on to. No one is better than another, we are the same and yet each of us has our own, specific role and value to society. - Sonia
I got to see her perform this song live! Amazing!! Definitely something I can relate to a little.
God sees you Rachel, I know how you feel. I struggle myself, I’m praying for you sweet woman.
I can't tell you How this song saved me every time I feel like I'm drowning I listen to this song it's amazing
Absolutely beautiful lyrics. Perfect time for a perfect song. Well done, Rachel x
God bless you so much for bein in the world and making me feel that a song simplifies the chalenge of life. You are blessed❤ Gritins from a srong heart😘
I had a devastating miscarriage back in Jan and I am 9.5 weeks pregnant with our rainbow baby. This song means everything to me. Thank you for this beautiful masterpiece
Allo
Something that collapses your thoughts
It crunches you like you can't untangle them
You stay in there cause it feels hard and tight
Deeper inside you know it's killing
Even though you know what you can do You are capable of doing anything
You see, you can change But still you stay in there
Hard to stand, Hard to breathe, Hard to move
Hard to do everything in your thoughts
Leaving all those chances that can make changes
DON'T Stay in there STAY where you are made
GRAB yourself to do what's in your thoughts
TRUST it badly that you can do ittt
Just like Rachel Platten said, Breathe in and Breathe Out, all time for every chance and go ahead. I'm brighter than the light they're trying to steal. I'm bigger than the lone nights Thanks Rachel Platten for bringing the most colorful to my life. I needed it.
This song hit home for me had me an tears 😭 I know I’m not the only one suffering from PTSD she’s related to so many of us in the world 🌎 she’s a gift and a blessing she did that ❤❤❤❤
Omg! Absolutely beautiful! You are awesome Rachel Platten! Amen!❤
Wow, lately her songs have spoken to my heart. As a person who struggles with overwhelming intrusive thoughts, this song is very comforting. I always told myself I was better than what my thoughts told me. But they were so .. real, that I stopped trying to be better, and just kept moving on in life with these horrible thoughts in my head. I have heard songs about thoughts but Rachel, your song opened up that door I needed. I thought my thoughts were making me a bad person but listening to this song showed me how real bad thoughts are for everyone. I don't feel so alone when I listen to this song. Thank you, Rachel Platten, I am grateful for your song.
This song has so much meaning to people who have been at the edge and almost fallen into that black hole!!!!
Thank you, Rachel.I know this video came from your PPD, but it hit me so hard. I have lifetime major and chronic depression since I was a child, grew up with an abusive father and not so nice siblings all my life. I have Complex PTSD from my childhood and PTSD from a horrifying rape at knifepoint by a strange man at 24. I’ve picked 2 bad husbands who were abusive like my father (surprise!), I’ve had too much trauma to explain or care to share here and at 70, retired 3 years early due to a serious illness, I’m struggling to put myself together once again as I face yet another disability. This song is the words I’ll never tell my health professionals, because don’t want suicidal in my records at 70. Bad thoughts are with me everyday. I just try to make it, and survive for my dog and cat.
This is a beautiful song, I'm struggling and I don't know if I could keep myself survive in the near future...but the lyrics really hit the bottom of my heart, thank you!
Every one of your songs brings a tear to my eye Rachel, you are so incredibly talented! You are my fav artist xx
I’ve been battling obsessive intrusive thoughts for a long time about my Mom. She means so freakin’ much to me & I Love her with all of my heart!
I’m getting more help. ❤
a voice full of sadness penetrates deep into my heart
Rachel, sweet soul. it´s always so soothing for the heart everytime this video pops up in the middle of my UA-cam routine viewing, and brings me the BEAUTY of this poignant dialogue between the individual and their existence, so humanely conveyed by your ART. And I am saying this not as the head shrink that I am, professionally, but as a person being touched by the expression of another person. Well, you know your onions, but my point here is what you convey from your inner self´s sensitivity. Thank you for the beauty in the sensitivity of your soul, so essentially shared with us. Brava!
Another MEANINGFUL, relateable song from rachael!! 🙀🎉🎉👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
4:15 Whew! Listening to this song is like giving birth!!! And as a mother of three, giving birth is a beautiful blessing! I love you @Rachel Platten and your amazing singing mission, orchestrated by God!!!🙌🏾🙏🏾😇🩵✨🕊️💫
This music is a heal for my PTSD "fight"!❤
There is so many singers that deserves more recognition.So good message she leavs f4 help people..well done Rachel!
An underrated gem artist 💎👑
@rachel platten you have seriously helped me in my severe distress with borderline personality disorder
RACHEL PLATTEN ALWAYS BRINGS POSITIVE MESSAGE THROUGH HER SONGS AND I LOVE IT!!!
I LOVE ALL OF YOUR SONGS SINCE FIGHT SONG🥰❤
As some one who deals with mental health problems myself and amongst family find this really moving and made my day a bit more brighter than it was, so thank you for sharing this wonderful track