Music for Depression
Whether you’ve had a bad day, lost money, lost love or felt ill, at some point we’ve all experienced the magical effect that music has to lift us out of depression instantaneously.
How is it that music has this magical power to change your mood instantaneously? If you look at recent studies such as one published in The New York Times by the Cochrane Collaboration, a not-for-profit group that reviews health care issues, we find that music therapy offers a real clinical benefit to depression sufferers.
In the study the reviewers found five randomized trials that studied the effects of music therapy. Some studies looked at the effects of providing music therapy to patients who were receiving drug treatment for depression. Others compared music therapy to traditional talk therapy. In four out of five of the trials, music therapy worked better at easing depression symptoms than therapies that did not employ music, the researchers found.
“The current studies indicate that music therapy may be able to improve mood and has low drop-out rates,” said lead author Anna Maratos, an arts therapist for the National Health Service in London. “While the evidence came from a few small studies, it suggests that this is an area that is well worth further investigation.
Ms. Maratos notes that music therapy might be particularly useful for adolescents who may reject a traditional form of counseling
. Some older patients also may not be comfortable talking about their feelings, “but do tend to express themselves through song,” she said.
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