Music Therapy Helps Overcome Emotional Problems, Mental Illnesses and Social Problems, Is It True?

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FEMUSINDO.com - Is it true that music therapy can help overcome emotional problems, mental illnesses and social problems?

From many cases that have occurred, the needs of patients who are handled directly through music have proven to be effective.

Music therapy has long been used to help people overcome various health problems.

Music therapy is a treatment method that uses music clinically to help overcome various conditions, both physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially.

In medical records, this music therapy is used for individuals of all ages and with various conditions.

Music therapy can be done by listening to music, singing, dancing, meditating, or playing a musical instrument.

Music therapy is used to treat symptoms of a number of conditions, both in terms of mental and physical health, including anxiety disorders, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD and others.

Treatment with music therapy allows patients to overcome stress and symptoms of anxiety, pain and can provide safe conductivity to express emotions.

Robert Burton, a 17th-century scholar in The Anatomy of Melancholy, argued that music and dance were essential in treating mental illness, especially melancholy.

In his notes, music is mentioned as having great power to drive away illness and called it a very powerful medicine against despair and melancholy.

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

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

Schizophrenia patients are people who experience chronic mental disorders that affect the way they think, feel, and communicate. (*)