"having comments such as this one helps reassure me that it was a good choice to be open and honest last night about how conflicted I felt"

I'm glad. There are so many benefits to sharing stories like these.

Because people tend not to share them, other people think they are alone having dark nights, when in fact, everybody has them.

And quite apart from that, it is obvious than these experiences are so acute that they trigger the best writing, vivid, suspenseful and unforgettable.

I'm a little jealous of your date with the Foo Fighters lol.