Music is Simply Amazing

Ever since I was a little kid music has been a large part of my life. Some of my earliest memories are eating lunch with my parents while listening to AC/DC and my parents making pizza and listening to the same Erasure album every saturday. Even to this day I listen to music almost constantly. I have an impossibly large number of songs in my iTunes (35000+), a full 80gb iPod, an iPhone almost filled with music, and a CD collection in excess of 300. Even as I'm typing this there is music by my favorite band blaring from my cheap stereo system, the song where I got the name for this blog actually just finished playing. I've also been to way more than my fair share of concerts with almost 40 just in the last year alone.

All that being said I'm sure some of you are curious how this is going to be health related and not just me espousing on my love for music. For me music is integral to my health. Whenever I'm down I know the kind of music that will make me feel better, whenever I'm happy I know the type of music that will make me even happier. Theres also music to help me write, to help me concentrate, to make driving easier and so many countless other things.

With out music my life would be a lot more chaotic and upsetting. Music while it wont help me get over a cold or help me recover from a heart attack is quite important to my mental health. I wont say I need it to be in a good mood but it really does help. I cant how many times music has gotten me out of a funk or helped me deal with something depressing or just made a good day better. Some might find it weird but the music that calms me down is some of the hardest stuff out there that my parents and alot of my friends hate. Theres just something about someone screaming lyrics that makes me feel like they understand where I'm at in my life.After a particularly bad break up my freshman year of college one album by my favorite band really helped me deal with it because every song felt like the lead singer understood what I was feeling and knowing that someone else out there had gone through the same thing really helped me out.

Most people wont think of music as a part of mental health but to those people that are involved in it or have a deep love for it they know it is and they know how important it can be to people.