{"id":152651,"date":"2024-06-10T19:55:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/?p=152651"},"modified":"2024-06-10T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:58:19","slug":"5-ways-music-affects-anxiety-and-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/152651","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways Music Affects Anxiety and Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"5 Ways Music Affects Anxiety and Depression\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_eXdP7ojSkI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nToday, 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.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThey may take medication or go to counseling or therapy.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSome may also find that music helps them.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nResearch has shown that music can have a strong effect on us.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt can alleviate anxiety and depression, increase spatial awareness, and enhance mood.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nInterestingly, the genre of music can be important as well.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nResearchers from the University of Utah Pain Research Center have found that listening to music helped to reduce pain in those who were highly anxious.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nA hundred and forty-three participants listened to music while receiving electric shocks.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt seems, therefore, that music is good in helping with pain by activating sensory pathways to compete with the pain pathways.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnother 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.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe study had 84 people participants and it was found that harmonious sounds were the most relaxing.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThey even led to a decrease in cortisol.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHowever, 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.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnother way music can affect anxiety is through the process of writing.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIt writing down and shoe sports can help alleviate the anxiety around them.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/7203955\/pexels-photo-7203955.jpeg?auto=compress&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;h=650&amp;w=940\" \/>\r\n\r\nIt might also be easier to talk about feelings through lyrics and songs than in other ways.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAlso reading lyrics.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThat means a lot to you can help.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nYou 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.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPositive upbeat, music can help lift your mood while slow and sad music might increase your depression.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAlso listening to music associated with bad memories may make your symptoms worse.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis depends on the individual, of course.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSometimes listening to sad lyrics can help an individual feel better, as they may feel less alone.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLike with anxiety writing, music can also affect depression.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWriting down your feelings can be very helpful in fighting depression.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSo writing poems or lyrics about your feelings can help reduce depressive symptoms.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWriting out the feelings can be a form of release and has been known to prevent suicide and self-harm.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWe hope you enjoyed this video. 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