Music Therapy and Mental Disorders

Music therapy has been used in both adults and children with psychiatric disorders. It has been used to adjust certain behaviors that appear in various mental disorders. It has been shown that it can reduce agitation in patients with dementia.  Music therapy has been used in patients with Parkinson's disease to improve motor skills and emotional problems. Music therapy has been proven to be effective in alleviating grief and in easing the pains of depression

Music therapy can help a person to recover faster when it is applied to the people, who are mentally ill, have difficulties with their studies, and with the chronically ill. Different types of music can be used for different diagnoses and serve this purpose.

Music therapies can be combined with other arts, such as painting, poetry, dancing using it for relaxation exercises. Music therapy helps members of a group to better understand each other.  For individual therapy, music can be chosen according to the person’s state and attitude towards music.  The abilities of the mentally ill persons can be improved and developed. Each person’s feelings and will make it easier for them to reveal and provide them better perspectives of life.

 Music therapy is often considered to be of great help to the members of a support group and prevent severe consequences of some disorders and repeated treatment has been found to make a patient less dependent on medicine and diminishes the possibility of suicide attempts.

The type of music for example low key, relaxing music seems to be likely to lower your stress levels and prove to be beneficial.  Music may be useful as a means of relaxation or group discussion motivation. Music therapy is used for extensive healing even intensive care patients. Music therapy is used to reduce stress and anxiety and helps the patient to learn stress management.

Music can help regain confidence in one’s life, as well as improve their self esteem levels. It can give a person peace of mind. The use of music for those with anxiety and stress shows a reduction and positive changes in both mood and emotional state.  Music has a soothing effect on its patients and helps them to reach in their inner-self. The benefits of music therapy include that of reduced stress, anxiety, and pain. The style of music that the person finds appealing is important in music therapy as well; not only the tone but lyrics matters a lot in healing a person.

Listening to positive lyrics can result in relaxing your mind and thinking positively but listening to negative lyrics can have opposite effect. It allows you to listen to your emotions and understand what you are feeling. Slow music is said to cause a soothing effect while the opposite happens if you listen to fast music.

Music plays an enormous role in the lives of human beings. Combining music therapy into regular therapy programs for psychiatric disorders can help speed recovery and also help make therapy a more positive experience. Music therapy is a valuable and becoming a more used asset in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy

Antipsychotic Medication and Mental Illnesses

Psychiatric disorders can be pose risk factors for diabetes and can cause complications with a condition of diabetes. Antipsychotic medications that are used to treat psychiatric disorders are associated with diabetes.

Diabetes is a chronic medical illness and is often associated with several psychiatric disorders. Antipsychotic medications are a vital treatment of the medication management of severe psychiatric disorders.  

The co occurrence of diabetes and psychiatric disorders is thought to be related to several factors. A diagnosis of diabetes can lead to increased levels of anxiety, depressive symptoms, and lowered self-esteem. In individuals who have psychiatric disorders the complications are even greater.

Antipsychotic medications are widely used to treat a variety of psychiatric disorders. The treatment for psychotic disorders and is of schizophrenia and to prevent relapses; and is treatment for manic and mixed phases of bipolar disorder.

The use of antipsychotics is linked to an increase of weight gain. Atypical antipsychotics, including those that are less likely to induce weight gain, have a greater effect on weight gain in children and adolescents. Among children and adolescents treated for schizophrenia, autism there is significant weight gain has been associated with the use of medication. Many patients with schizophrenia may have diabetes and be unaware of it.

 Schizophrenia is a devastating illness, it occurs at an early age. These medications often prevent a severe disability and inhibit aggressive and dangerous behavior.

Antipsychotic medications are used in those with bipolar disorder as a short term treatment to control psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations or delusions. These symptoms may occur during acute mania or severe depression.

In people with bipolar disorder, antipsychotics are also used as sedatives, for insomnia, for anxiety, and for agitation. They can be taken with a mood stabilizing drug and can decrease symptoms of mania until mood stabilizers take full effect. Some antipsychotic drugs may also help lessen bipolar depression.

Some of the newer antipsychotics seem to help stabilize moods on their own. As a result, they may be used alone as long-term treatment for people who don't tolerate or respond to lithium and anticonvulsants.

Antipsychotic drugs help balance certain brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. It is not clear exactly how these drugs work, but they usually improve manic episodes quickly.

The newer antipsychotics faster acting and can help avoid reckless and impulsive behaviors associated with mania. More normal thinking often is restored relatively fast with a response often in a week.

Certain antipsychotic drugs cause high cholesterol levels, and they may increase the risk of diabetes.

Common side effects of antipsychotic medications include: Blurred vision; dry mouth; drowsiness; muscle spasms or tremor; involuntary facial tics

Older antipsychotic drugs may be helpful if a person has severe side effects or does not respond to the newer drugs. These drugs may cause serious long term side effects called tardive dyskinesia, a movement disorder characterized by repetitive, involuntary movements like protruding the tongue, or grimacing.

The benefits of an antipsychotic medication for a may outweigh the potential risks, even when those risks include diabetes.