I have always used music when I feel bad... and usually differen t music from what I usually listen to... A couple of years ago I had a major crash. I have been struggling with episodes of depression since I was a child, and often they come without any trigger. This time I had several triggers... I was newly divorced, living alone for the first time in many years. I had econimical probelms etc etc. The real big bang came when I went into a fight with my best, and that that time only, friend. She had been abusing amphtetamines for over a year, and was desperately trying to get off. I had been supporting and helping her all the time, but at some point I just couldn't manage anymore... one thing lead to another, and suddenly we were not on talking terms.

I locked myself in for a week, just lying in bed crying. Pulled out the phone, locked the door, pulled the curtains in front of the window. I had some CD's that I had gotten in the mail from an abroad friend a few days before, classical music. Now, Im a ounk and rock and heavy and grunge queen... but I stuffed one into the CD player of my laptop and put on some hight tech earphones (?)...

It was Mozart, one pieanoconcertyo (nr 21 I think) and a couple of symphonies. And I swear, it cured meWell, not exactly cured me, but it rocked me out of the apathy and made me go back to the living again.

The music took absolutely all bad thoughts out of my head, it calmed me, soothed me, made me relax completely... and lifted my mood. It was if the pianocords where in my brains, and for every touch on the tangents there was a chemical explosion in my head.

Later on I told my frien abroad that I got the CD's from about this. He just looked at me, smiled, and said "Of course, it is Mozart. What did you expect?".

I have read books about the Mozart effect (which is another thing but still something that is supposed to come from his music, so I mention it anyway), and I know that proper reasearch has shown that the Mozart effect is not really there, it's just another rumour. But knowing how easily Mozart produced his music, and knowing how much he managed to produce despite his short and wild life (and also being of the opinion that music is a necessity in human beings life)... I am convinced that his music is good for your health (at least for quite a lot of people).

When I got pregnant I played Mozart for my child every day when she was in my womb. Now she's 1,5, and chooses her music herself (and prefer something that she can ROCK to, hehe)... but Mozart has a place in my heart that will stay there for the rest of my life.