[boogiesmash]

Does music affect your mood? I've been noticing recently my mood has picked up when listened to dance pop rock music.

[gina_re]

They can. But most of the time I feel like my moods determine what music I listen to to begin with. If I'm mad, I want to listen to angrier music. If I'm sad, I want slower sad music. If I'm in a good mood, well I'll listen to everything. When I'm upset, I just can't get myself to listen to anything upbeat or positive. My mind rejects it every time. I mostly listen to my iPod to know what I'm listening to..

[Christopher1990]

This so true! I never looked at it that way really

One thing, when manic too much music can be a bad things. Especially up beat/tempo

Originally Posted by gina_re

They can. But most of the time I feel like my moods determine what music I listen to to begin with. If I'm mad, I want to listen to angrier music. If I'm sad, I want slower sad music. If I'm in a good mood, well I'll listen to everything. When I'm upset, I just can't get myself to listen to anything upbeat or positive. My mind rejects it every time. I mostly listen to my iPod to know what I'm listening to..

[BlueInanna]

I'm like gina_re ... my mood has the big influence on what I want to listen to - or sometimes can't stand to listen to anything - or sometimes why hypo some song (often a horrible one lol) won't stop looping in my poor brain. I recently found some classical or nice jazz to be calming.
I love music & enjoy whenever possible, live music and dancing is so fun! Unless i'm depressed haha. I think I'm hypo right now & can't stop talk typing. Can't wait to get in my car after work and blast some tunes.

i've always said... a life without music, is no life at all

seriously i love music, of any sort.

i've lots of cds- from rock to country to classical, but sometimes what i liked to do is listen to radio atlantis.. it's a station that plays middle of the road stuff- nothing too fast, nothing too slow. a good mix of music for all moods, and it usually works out

[smallwonderer]

listen to music constantly (mostly electronic music) to calm myself and keep my mood up. i know there are some really upbeat songs that can send me a little bit temporarily up but since it's so shortlived maybe I just can't tell the difference between happy and hypo. When I am really depressed I can't listen to music. When I am manic, my music tastes change to liking even more upbeat music.

I also know if I'm getting hypo because I really want to share what I've been listening to with everyone.

Originally Posted by boogiesmash

Does music affect your mood? I've been noticing recently my mood has picked up when listened to dance pop rock music.

Yes. I think it's super common though in the general population, not a BP thing. (Not sure if anyone's thinking that.) I also think of the word "mood" in a couple different senses. One being along the lines of emotion -- a general usage, and the other being a state of longer duration like a BP mood episode. I'd put the music effect with the first catagory. With a BP episode, I think (know! Lol) it's mostly a reinforcer (lol, "Match-A-Mood", if you will) of a current state (like what gina_re talks about) and though it might, say as in the case of mild to moderate depression, provide some transient easing of symptoms (ie., it might make me feel not quite so bad for awhile), but it's not going to bring me out of an actual episode.

Originally Posted by gina_re

They can. But most of the time I feel like my moods determine what music I listen to to begin with. If I'm mad, I want to listen to angrier music. If I'm sad, I want slower sad music. If I'm in a good mood, well I'll listen to everything. When I'm upset, I just can't get myself to listen to anything upbeat or positive. My mind rejects it every time...

Same here.

[TryingToMoveForward]

Music definitely uplifts my mood, and I tend to sing more when I'm in high spirits. I listen to a lot of classic rock and 90s music when I am hypomanic. Love it. Music is wonderful, I'll probably bring a playlist for at work tonight.

[boogiesmash]

Originally Posted by Innerzone

Yes. I think it's super common though in the general population, not a BP thing. (Not sure if anyone's thinking that.) I also think of the word "mood" in a couple different senses. One being along the lines of emotion -- a general usage, and the other being a state of longer duration like a BP mood episode. I'd put the music effect with the first catagory. With a BP episode, I think (know! Lol) it's mostly a reinforcer (lol, "Match-A-Mood", if you will) of a current state (like what gina_re talks about) and though it might, say as in the case of mild to moderate depression, provide some transient easing of symptoms (ie., it might make me feel not quite so bad for awhile), but it's not going to bring me out of an actual episode.

Same here.

Perhaps I was coming out of an episode or just had mild to moderate depression, but it did really get me going, took my mind of the problem and into the song.

I can also see and agree with Gina re post too. Sometimes I do like listening to dark rock metal when I'm angry and upbeat music did nothing to change that mood.

Maybe it is 50/50 or on a milder case.

[Ocean Swimmer]

I avoid music when pretty depressed.
Then when I'm feeling up music is the ticket. Old. New. Rock. The Blues.

[OctobersBlackRose]

For me personally music can either have a calming effect on me regardless of genre (mostly alternative/goth rock and their sub-genres). In a hypomanic or full blown manic episode I've been known to listen to music for up to 12hrs straight (exceptions are for eating or bathroom/super breaks), though I still have no concrete focus and I'm still doing other things, and my energy is still very high during my music binges, and since my mania can be the angry/irritable type, I.can get angry and impulsive and end up throwing my device I listen to music on, mainly my phone . But if I'm in a really depressive episode, I can't stand listening to music as it just makes me too tired and angry or anxious to listen to evennone song. If I'm in a baseline mood it is hard to tell at the moment as I haven't fully experienced a decent baseline mood in a few years. But regardless music does play a.good part in my life and keeping me calm. It's really a double edged sword for me to be honest.

[cashart10]

Originally Posted by smallwonderer

I also know if I'm getting hypo because I really want to share what I've been listening to with everyone.

Yes! This!

[TishaBuv]

Next time I get depressed, I am going to force myself to listen to Happy by Pharrell and see what happens.

Originally Posted by boogiesmash

Perhaps I was coming out of an episode or just had mild to moderate depression, but it did really get me going, took my mind of the problem and into the song.

I can also see and agree with Gina re post too. Sometimes I do like listening to dark rock metal when I'm angry and upbeat music did nothing to change that mood.

Maybe it is 50/50 or on a milder case.

In the times when it got you going and took your mind off the problem, did the effect last? Also, when you say, "took my mind off the problem", was there a specific incident that you were able to let go of, or do you mean it in a general sense of being able to shake you out of a ongoing state altogether?

Yeah, upbeat (assuming happy/positive content) wouldn't "de-anger" me either. It'd just give me more to be ticked off at. Better to let me vent through angrily singing my angry music to get it out of my system. That's pretty effective for a specific immediate issue anyway. Unfortunately, it's ineffective for me in helping an ongoing state of irritability. (For that, when it's worst, I try to "self-quarantine" -- for everyone's sake(!) No music involved. Input minimized altogether actually).

[cashart10]

I adore music! All kinds of it. I listen all the time. I also tend to play the match a mood game when I am up or down but it doesn't always work out that way. I become obsessed with either a song or an artist. My passion for that song or artist overwhelms me and takes over my thoughts and my time.

[pirilin]

Music is the soul of the people. People without music are people without soul.

[Icare dixit]

Originally Posted by pirilin

Music is the soul of the people. People without music are people without soul.

You are so not-BP! Music is not something everyone enjoys, same as with fiction and anything "not true", not rational or factual.

But of course, everyone is so very different. Take for example this thread: only fourth or something in recent time about music, and it is no wonder that it's so short.

Music works both ways, indeed, also in my experience. The most "manic music", however, can be like sunny weather, very depressing, when I'm already depressed.

[cashart10]

Music = Life. It varies a great deal based on my mood. In the event I am (hypo)manic, it takes over my senses and I just dance like an ignorant fool for hours at a time. I often get stuck on one song.

[zepchic]

I notice when i am manic that I turn the music all the way up in the car. I def. have diff songs I turn to when either manic or depressed. I actually try not to listen when depressed because listening to songs like 'hurt' by Johnny Cash probably isn't good for me. I actually have a playlist titled manic. Its like fuel

[Icare dixit]

Originally Posted by cashart10

Music = Life. It varies a great deal based on my mood. In the event I am (hypo)manic, it takes over my senses and I just dance like an ignorant fool for hours at a time. I often get stuck on one song.

That stuck on one song must be significant. That's just not normal, now is it?

Does it stabilise or destabilise? I think the former, but I am unsure. Do we discover new aspects each time we listen to a song, more so than others do? What is it? It's enough for a diagnosis, maybe. Just weird.

Very, very interesting.

[Ocean Swimmer]

I like Mystic Garden. Bob Dylan

Originally Posted by Icare dixit

You are so not-BP! Music is not something everyone enjoys, same as with fiction and anything "not true", not rational or factual.

But of course, everyone is so very different. Take for example this thread: only fourth or something in recent time about music, and it is no wonder that it's so short.

Music works both ways, indeed, also in my experience. The most "manic music", however, can be like sunny weather, very depressing, when I'm already depressed.

i just noticed that in your signature their's a reffrence to hamlet... to be, or not to be

very cool. i like shakespeare

[Icare dixit]

Originally Posted by shattered sanity

i just noticed that in your signature their's a reffrence to hamlet... to be, or not to be

very cool. i like shakespeare

Shakespeare must be truer than how we see life. Fiction does that, music does that.

Thanks to the advancements in science/biochemistry, to be or not to be has become to take or not to take, hopefully for most if not all.

[Icare dixit]

Originally Posted by shattered sanity

i just noticed that in your signature their's a reffrence to hamlet... to be, or not to be

very cool. i like shakespeare

Delusions are like fiction, films, plays, poetry or music: they can also be truer than how we see reality, give a more significant perspective. That's why it's so misleading.

Which play(s) do you like best?

My favourite must be The Tempest, if I had to choose, I think.

I interpret it as a reflection on rationality and emotion, gaining understanding and thus freeing oneself. A meta-analysis maybe, of the human condition and art, fiction.

Maybe Peter Pan was inspired by it.

i posted my answer to your shakespear question.

see my other thread..