Beautiful music often makes people feel happy, and gradually people are also using music to treat depression. The centers in charge of emotions in the human brain are the hypothalamus and the limbic system. Experiments have found that music does not indirectly affect people's thinking like language, but can directly act on the hypothalamus and the limbic system to regulate people's emotions in both directions. Relaxes and relieves tension. After music therapy, patients often feel refreshed, their depression subsides, and their condition improves. The influence of music on people is involuntary, just like the charge horn on the battlefield, it passionately inspires people's fighting spirit. Music therapy for the treatment of depression includes: Single music therapy: The purpose of treating the disease is achieved simply by listening to music or participating in music activities. It is different in principle from general appreciation of entertainment music. It is a music therapist who prescribes different music prescriptions according to the different diseases the patients suffer from. Just like a medicine, it allows patients to be exposed to different music so that human body functions can change in different ways. Music electrotherapy: Simply put, it is a therapy that organically combines music therapy with other electrotherapy. Commonly used ones include music current electrode therapy, electroacupuncture therapy, music magnetic field therapy, etc. It is developed by combining traditional electrotherapy, acupuncture therapy, magnetic therapy and other methods, taking the advantages of each to make the curative effect more significant.
Tips: Examples of commonly used music for treating depression: French Bizet's "Carmen" Overture, John Strauss's "The Blue Danube", Bach's "Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor", Stravins' Firebird Suite One