[Shadowmeph]

Years ago I stopped listening to music becasue I found that it really affected me usually in a negative way.
yesterday I plugged in a CD ( yes I know old at least it isn't a tape) into player and was driving then started to get huge emotions flooding me I tried to eject the cd but the dam thing wouldn't eject I ended up pulling over and prying the dam thing out of my cd player.
Just wondering if this sort of thing has happened to anyone else?

[Moose72]

Music does that to me. Tv does that to me. Once, I was playing an old recording (cd in the car) of me and my sister singing and playing instruments and talking and I just started sobbing.

[Skeezyks]

Hello Shadowmeph: No, I can't say as I have had this kind of reaction. However, music certainly does have an effect on me. I avoid any loud brash music. Mostly I listen to what is usually termed "new age" music, chant, & some classical music.

Yay, someone else!

Music does affect me. Usually it does so negatively. It is not what the music is about (I tend to ignore the lyrics as best I can) but the sound itself. Paticularly grating on me is country music. It has made me so ill at times I've had to be sick.

I adore music, and lyrics are the most important part. After a hospitalization about 17 years ago I explained to my counselor how music effected me so powerfully. This was pre BP DX. I was DX'd with depression, anxiety and social anxiety. I didn't understand the connection music had to my illness, I just knew it had powerful effects and influences on me. The counselor said this was common and understandable but never explained why. When manic, certain music is the equivalent of drinking alcohol or taking stimulants for me. It increases the powerful feelings inside me and feels like the music is sending me messages.

[venusss]

Psytrance is my coping method. Something about those beats... calms me down in very odd way. Astral Projection and INfected Mushroom are my lifesavers. Vibrasphere for calming down (even my sixty something mom adores Vibrasphere)

[Shadowmeph]

I used to play around with music at parties to see what effect it would have on the crowd () way back in the 1980s lol) and it had huge influence especially when people were on something being alcohol or drugs.
I am glad that I am not the only person like this. my music now days is nature I listen for nature no mater where I am be it a dog barking the wind blowing birds chirping. it grounds me which is why I enjoy my runs . just need to get back up and running again. DOc gave me Prozac yesterday says it will help until I see my Psych . I am worried it will have the opposite effect.

[Unrigged64072835]

I don't play music as often as I used to. Like TV, anything that stirs up my emotions can cause anxiety attacks. So I have to be very selective as to what I listen to.

Originally Posted by justafriend306

... Paticularly grating on me is country music. It has made me so ill at times I've had to be sick.

I was pretty much thinking, music, nah, I'm good. Then reading this -- oh well THAT. THAT I relate to! And how. (To each his own and all, but...) Ye gawds how I hate country music.
Music in general is not a problem for me. Certain kinds ARE problematic though and I need to get away or block it. If I can't, I get very agitated.

Originally Posted by venusss

Psytrance is my coping method. Something about those beats... calms me down in very odd way. Astral Projection and INfected Mushroom are my lifesavers. Vibrasphere for calming down (even my sixty something mom adores Vibrasphere)

I like triphop for my electronic, so checked these out. Turns out Infected Mushroom will be playing here next week(!) Come on over!

I'm curious -- to Shadowmeph and others for whom music is problematic -- how is listening to things like white noise, white noise celestial ambient for you? Or isochronic tones/binaural beats, that kind of thing? (I don't care about any claims they make, just something I ran across while youtubing white noise for (somewhat) covering obnoxious neighbors.)

[CobolCapsule]

I rarely will listen to music anymore. Most music either annoys me or makes me depressed. I use to tolerate it a lot more, especially when i was yournger, but with age i find it discomforting.

[st0psign]

music can turn an otherwise good day into a depressed day, or turn a depressed day into a downward spiral. but it can also be very uplifting. I guess music just has the power to drastically influence my mood, for better or worse.

[BipolarAmy]

Everyday I drive to work no matter what my mood I'm crying from the radio. I never knew why this happend to me, I just thought I was an HSP (highly sensitive person).

[Septembersrain]

Yes. Usually I listen to high energy songs to keep myself feeling motivated.

However I've got anxiety, so sometimes I'll listen to soundtracks from Final Fantasy games and anime to relax. It can help me to fall asleep.

Then there is those rare times I'll listen to country to make myself cry. I rarely cry so sometimes I feel like I need it.

[VerMOZZica]

Music affects me very much.Sad music actually makes me feel less alone when I can relate to the lyrics.I listen to music everyday.I love music although there are times when I can`t enjoy anything.

[rwwff]

I pretty much only touch the stuff (lol), when I have an outlet for the energy that's at least mostly non destructive. I've not listened while driving in quite a while; so usually only at the gym, or exercising outside. It does easily put me into that 105% performance mode that results in injuries, but the experience usually feels worth it at the time.

[zijax]

Yes, it completely changes my mood. I can become someone else. It can also be irritating and I have to turn it off.

[Shadowmeph]

Originally Posted by zijax

Yes, it completely changes my mood. I can become someone else. It can also be irritating and I have to turn it off.

I get t hat allot . actually been trying to use music to sort of control these mood swings

[neodoering]

Music has a calming effect on my symptoms, most of the time, but how much varies. Type of music doesn't seem to matter. My symptoms are worse in the afternoon than in the morning, so I play more music then in an attempt to calm the psychosis. For mania, music makes me feel more pumped up, but it doesn't control the symptom.

[TheBiPolarSoldier]

Music is what keeps me from losing my sanity...I have my headphones in for 3 or 4 hours every day,sometimes more

[VanGore28]

I'm nearly thirty and I still follow music and use it to fall back on. Its the only constant in my life. I like it loud and heavy as it absorbs all of my attention and is full of affirmative messages and reflects real life. Its true music can change moods in a person!

[Moose72]

Originally Posted by VanGore28

I'm nearly thirty and I still follow music and use it to fall back on. Its the only constant in my life. I like it loud and heavy as it absorbs all of my attention and is full of affirmative messages and reflects real life. Its true music can change moods in a person!

I was rocking to some tunes after judo before I was diagnosed and my sensei commented that shouldn't I have left that kind of music behind when I was younger.

[Shadowmeph]

last Sat I Dug out some older hardcore music listened to it in my truck cranked my 54yr old head felt like it was 20s but then I ended up at the liquor store bought 12 beers ( Canadian beer not the US stuff which is like water) started to drink that mixed with tomatoe juice ended up staying up all night with my headphones on Dancing around my bach suit listening to you tube songs and posting the songs on FB. went to bed around 6 am woke up at 8 am went for a 12 km run then made a decision ... I am not going to purposely listen to music again . I wasn't hung over or anything like that but I was confused as to how I went from listening to Music to Drinking which I haven't Drank in over 17 yrs .