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Music as a coping strategy

Music as a coping strategy or music therapy helps with psychological pain. Pain is eased with the introduction of music for the specific end goal of healing. Music therapy and coping are affordable, it is a simple solution doctor can try that can be effective. Although there is a minimal loss for trying to cope with music, it is still not heavily used in the medical field. Music coping for helping treat anxiety and depression has shown great results. As for further coping with severe illnesses music coping can be an aide for treatment. (Victoria.bacon)

Music and its Effects on Depression and Anxiety (Anusrigunde)
Music has been proven in numerous studies to alleviate the symptoms of depression and anxiety, including reduced muscle tension, boosted dopamine levels, safe emotional release, and enhanced interpersonal relationships. A 2011 study conducted by the British Journal of Psychiatrist on 79 participants diagnosed with depression between the ages of 18 and 50 successfully demonstrates this. The results showed that participants who received music therapy along with standard care showed significant improvement in symptoms compared to those who received only standard care. The music therapy was also described to provide additional benefits outside of depressive symptoms dealing with general functioning. Furthermore, another study in 2018 proved music's effectiveness in reducing anxiety and depression in Alzheimer's patients. A sample of 25 patients with mild Alzheimer's receiving a short, 60-minute, protocol of music therapy showed lowering cortisol levels, effectively resulting in a significant decrease of depression and anxiety. Music therapy, as an efficient, cost-friendly, alternative medication, can be implemented to reduce many types of depression and anxiety, fairly common but serious mental health disorders.

Using Music to Cope with BPD (Leenasears)

Borderline personality disorder is a psychological condition that causes a person to have unstable moods, emotions, relationships, and behavior. Because people with BPD experience these very intense emotions, one way that helps to manage these emotions is music. Music has the ability to affect or change how a person is feeling, and it can also serve as a form of communication or expression. There are multiple ways that a person with BPD could use music to help with their condition. For some people, listening to music can be enough to distract themselves from anything else that may be going on. Music can actually help alter a person's mood and emotional state, and the use of music therapy can help a person to communicate and express their feelings. When trying to cope with mood symptoms of BPD, selecting music that is the direct opposite of what that person is feeling can be used to distress negative emotions.

Music As a Coping Strategy for Autism Spectrum Disorder (Janiseg1031)

Autism Spectrum Disorder is a developmental disorder that affects behavior, development, and communication in individuals at varying levels. A study done in 2006  showed that music therapy worked best in improving the results of both short and medium term results of autism spectrum disorder patients. The study assessed improvements in the normal areas of issue for those with ASD: verbal communication, social interactions, emotional reciprocity, and initiating behavior. These results were better than other standard methods used to enhance skills in those with ASD. The standard treatment for those with ASD, is placebo therapy which, in the study, had worse results than that of the music method,