Art-O-Gram: Art helps against depression, verifiable!

If you have recently been involved in a discussion that art is actually good for, you can throw some new arguments into the discussion after reading this article, because this is about the fact that art can be demonstrably helped with depression:

The fact that art enjoyment is a good means to reduce tensions and moods is quite well known and is practiced by a lot of people - albeit very often only passive, with the iPod on the ears. that listening to the soul already helps , and many can also feel that even physical tensions can be relaxed.

Just why this is so nobody can explain exactly, in particular most doctors are more likely to hold back here - art and music are not pills, the effectiveness of which has been tested in a study and (hopefully precisely enough and with consideration of the side effects).

And yet the effectiveness of art and music can be demonstrated in a study in a study: since 1984 the large-scale Hunt study , the Nord-Trøndelag health study of the NTNU, Norway's technical and scientific university has been running in Norway.

In the meantime, the study has had phase 3, for over 25 years, the state of health of almost 50,000 people in Nord-Trøndelag, a district in Mittelenorwegen, has been closely examined. The study includes interviews, medical examinations, surveys and blood and urine samples, with the help of the data obtained, detailed health profiles of the participants are created.

The study takes part in the study almost exactly 1 percent of the Norwegian population, but that was not planned, invited to participate was much more.

In any case, these are people with a wide variety of social and economic living conditions, and so it cannot be due to musical or artistic early education or a lot of money for opera and theater cards and frequent museum visits when the study has actually proven a special effect of art and music:

Here it could be determined that people feel healthier and more comfortable if they show a lively interest in art and music. Men demonstrably suffer less often from depression, women also benefit.

So it is scientifically proven: if you paint, go dancing more often, like to visit exhibitions or play a musical instrument - or just like to go to the theater or concert - then you will probably feel healthier and are less depressed than people who don't.

In this study, it was also scientifically proven that they benefit from dealing with art , regardless of the “status” they take in society, whether they enjoyed a sophisticated artistic education as an academic or whether they started to earn their life in a practical profession immediately after completing the secondary level.

It really only depends on the cultural activity and the cultural interest, not how expensive the respective artistic activity or the artistic experience must be bought. official website of the NTNU Trondheim offers more information about the study .

This is finally a primeval democratic way to more health- art can brighten your mood , and this positive effect is kindly completely independent of your wallet. Incidentally, regardless of whether you take the brush into your own hands, on Kunstplaza or in the large auction houses and galleries for affordable or non -affordable works of art or travel to Venice to the next Biennale. So you can do something good for taste and performance with art.

The researchers expressly warn against replacing the visit to the doctor with the museum visit, but this warning somehow reminds a reason -gifted person of the warning on American microwaves that cats have no place - after reading this article they will not fall over to faith, will soon be over and would put their broken leg into them.

However, if you have already noticed that stress is noticeable in terms of health and that in addition to sports and meditation there are many other methods of reducing stress, which usually have to do with new experiences, joy and enjoyment, this article confirms some pleasant feeling in a very positive way:

It is not a mere triumph that inspires you when you have completed a self -made work of art, it is not the only good conscience after the exhibition visit to have done something for education again, it is rather positive feelings with real physical echo that actually do your health good.

In this sense, researchers/project directors involved in the study also go so far as to encourage the possibilities that offer themselves as cost -effective pension funds. In the course of a healthcare system that is increasingly stressed with a wealth of health problems, all potential has to be exploited - and in the course of an increased turn to holistic, more and more medicinal medicine, such thoughts come to the fore anyway.

Incidentally, art has long been used for healing , in the therapy of mental-soul disorders, e.g. B. that seriously affect those affected. This is usually not aware of the relaxation music to enjoy iPod listeners, and yet it is.

And it also makes sense art therapy against mental vibrations instead of treating the patients exclusively with psychotropic drugs that almost never lead to healing chronic mental illnesses, but almost always have the risk of severely harmful side effects.

If you also want to do something good with regard to your nutrition of your physical and mental health, you should definitely build on the ginger number and turmeric as a spice with numerous health-promoting properties and generously take them into account in your own nutritional and cooking plan.

Such an art therapy , which as a side effect also brings those affected, "very simple among people" can have amazing success: in the theater studio Munich since 1997 "The free spirits, the spiritual and the free" have been meeting in this unique day care center under mental and artistic help of trained artists and therapists to fight the depression, which is literally devastating, to fight something, to fight, depression, depression, depression. To keep bipolar disorders within tolerable limits or to learn to deal with people and life again after a burn-out or another mental illness.

Quite a few participants help to participate in the program of the day care center to reduce their pharmaceuticals and to better cope with mental shock. Some can even learn to perceive the positive effects of their mental illness in such a way that they can condense their experiences and bring them into a form with which they touch other people. You can find out more about this day care center here: FOCUS Online: Theateratelier Munich .

The following articles also show that the use of art improves the healing effect of patients and promotes their recovery:

• Hospitals News - Art helps healing
• Art in the clinic: Baselitz helps healing
• Münstersche Zeitung: Art can also be medicine

This is actually no different than a definition of the goals of an artistic creative process ...