Before I researched How Music affects Mental Health I knew that music touches a different part of the brain that can be distant or hard to connect to without it. Music also plays a huge role in my life as it does many others in the world. I sing everyday and that’s therapy in itself. My curiosity with how music affects mental health began when my sister started music therapy. Ever since I was a little girl I've always turned to music to get me through hard times.
I chose the question, how does music function as therapy for the mind? I already knew a lot about music and some about how the mind functions and I didn't know a lot about them together. I feel like this question properly represents what I'm writing about. Answering this question …show more content…
So after we had a lesson on google advanced search in the library, I used it and found some more websites but I still didn't have a lot. Where I found most of my websites was on just plain old google. I know that everyone says google isn't the best place to find reliable websites, but on the databases and google advanced search I couldn't find any articles. On google I found a couple of articles by people that have been through situations that involve music therapy and how music affects depression and anxiety. I found an article from the Wall Street Journal website and an article from the American Psychological Association called “Music as Medicine”. But the source that proved most powerful was my sister, Rosie Stevens. I talked to her for the interview and she told me a lot about her music therapy and how it helps her decrease sensory overloads and improves her ability to be in loud places without earbuds. I listened to what she has to listen to everyday, common songs that she hears on the radio or on shuffle on iTunes. The big differences are that the songs switch sound from ear to ear and consist of different vocalists singing the same songs…But the types of songs can switch on occasion. For example, a couple week earlier she had to listen to loud classical music for a half an hour twice a
I chose the question, how does music function as therapy for the mind? I already knew a lot about music and some about how the mind functions and I didn't know a lot about them together. I feel like this question properly represents what I'm writing about. Answering this question …show more content…
So after we had a lesson on google advanced search in the library, I used it and found some more websites but I still didn't have a lot. Where I found most of my websites was on just plain old google. I know that everyone says google isn't the best place to find reliable websites, but on the databases and google advanced search I couldn't find any articles. On google I found a couple of articles by people that have been through situations that involve music therapy and how music affects depression and anxiety. I found an article from the Wall Street Journal website and an article from the American Psychological Association called “Music as Medicine”. But the source that proved most powerful was my sister, Rosie Stevens. I talked to her for the interview and she told me a lot about her music therapy and how it helps her decrease sensory overloads and improves her ability to be in loud places without earbuds. I listened to what she has to listen to everyday, common songs that she hears on the radio or on shuffle on iTunes. The big differences are that the songs switch sound from ear to ear and consist of different vocalists singing the same songs…But the types of songs can switch on occasion. For example, a couple week earlier she had to listen to loud classical music for a half an hour twice a