5 Ways Music Affects Anxiety and Depression

  Today, we will be sharing with you five interesting ways that music can affect anxiety and depression, based on an article from issue 3 at the Site to Go magazine when someone is diagnosed with a mental illness. There are many forms of treatment they can choose from.   They may take medication or go to counseling or therapy.   Some may also find that music helps them.   Research has shown that music can have a strong effect on us.   It can alleviate anxiety and depression, increase spatial awareness, and enhance mood.   Interestingly, the genre of music can be important as well.   Researchers from the University of Utah Pain Research Center have found that listening to music helped to reduce pain in those who were highly anxious.   A hundred and forty-three participants listened to music while receiving electric shocks.   It seems, therefore, that music is good in helping with pain by activating sensory pathways to compete with the pain pathways.   Another study looking at anxiety and music was conducted by David Elia and his colleagues. They wanted to determine what characteristics of music helped lower anxiety.   The study had 84 people participants and it was found that harmonious sounds were the most relaxing.   They even led to a decrease in cortisol.   However, it was also found that listening to fast-paced music increased anxiety, so it would seem that the tempo and type of music are very important.   Another way music can affect anxiety is through the process of writing.   It writing down and shoe sports can help alleviate the anxiety around them.   It might also be easier to talk about feelings through lyrics and songs than in other ways.   Also reading lyrics.   That means a lot to you can help.   You feel better if you analyze, why those lyrics mean a lot to you, so we’ve seen how music can affect anxiety, but does it also have an effect on depression? Listening to music can change your mood, so it’s, probably not surprising. It can influence people with depression, Jun, Cellini states that music helps you to express emotions and can help encourage you to let go of suppressed ones.   Positive upbeat, music can help lift your mood while slow and sad music might increase your depression.   Also listening to music associated with bad memories may make your symptoms worse.   This depends on the individual, of course.   Sometimes listening to sad lyrics can help an individual feel better, as they may feel less alone.   Like with anxiety writing, music can also affect depression.   Writing down your feelings can be very helpful in fighting depression.   So writing poems or lyrics about your feelings can help reduce depressive symptoms.   Writing out the feelings can be a form of release and has been known to prevent suicide and self-harm.   We hope you enjoyed this video. If you did please remember to like and share this video and subscribe to our channel for more from our magazine, you can buy them from Psyche to Godot shop.   All pledges to our Patreon at Patreon.com forward, slash psyched to go magazine; Music, As found on YouTube ꜱʟɪᴍᴄʀʏꜱᴛᴀʟ The World’s Only Slimming Crystal Water Bottles! The unique combination of crystals is so powerful that it has been used for decades by crystal healing experts to help thousands of men and women change their lives for the better ➯➱ ➫ ➪➬ ᴛʏᴘᴇ ᴏʀ ᴘᴀꜱᴛᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ʜᴇʀᴇ [Official] ᵘᵖᵗᵒ ⁷⁰% ᵒᶠᶠ ᵗᵒᵈᵃʸ!