Is Music Really a Powerful Medicine to Fight Despair and Melancholy?

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FEMUSINDO.com - Is it true that listening to or playing music can be a powerful medicine to fight despair and melancholy?

According to its meaning, despair is a mental condition in which a person loses hope and confidence to continue living.

Despair can be triggered by various factors, such as financial problems, personal conflicts, illness, or deep disappointment.

Meanwhile, Melancholy is an adjective that describes a person's state of being quiet, slow, gloomy, sad, gloomy and sad.

The 17th century scholar, Robert Burton argued in The Anatomy of Melancholy, that music and dance are very important in treating mental illness, especially melancholy.

He said that music has a very great power to ward off disease and called it a very powerful medicine to fight despair and melancholy.

Burton points out that in ancient times, Canus, the Rhodian violinist, used music to make a melancholic man cheerful, a lover more captivated, a religious person more devout.

Music has long been used to help people cope with their emotional problems. In the Ottoman Empire, mental illness was treated with music.

In November 2006, Dr. Michael J. Crawford and his colleagues also found that music therapy helped patients with schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects many aspects of a sufferer's life, such as behavior, emotions, and communication skills.

So, what is music therapy? Music therapy is an interpersonal process that uses music for physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual therapy to help patients improve or maintain their health.

In some cases, the patient's needs are addressed directly through music. In other cases, the method of therapy depends on the relationship that develops between the patient and the therapist.

Music therapy is used for individuals of all ages and with a variety of conditions, including psychiatric disorders, medical problems and physical disabilities.

Then, music therapy is also used for sensory disorders, developmental disabilities, substance abuse, communication disorders, interpersonal problems and for people who are in the aging process.

Therapy is also used to improve learning concentration, increase self-esteem, reduce stress, support physical exercise, and facilitate a number of other health-related activities. (*)