https://padlet.com/krgorup/l6osasj707tteppr en-us 2021-09-08 17:00:20 UTC 2025-11-19 02:08:36 UTC hello@padlet.com krgorup https://padlet.com/krgorup/l6osasj707tteppr/wish/1725551855 I have been pursuing music since 5th grade. I started off in our 5th grade choir, into 6th grade choir, into Odyssey for two years, in Select Ladies Ensemble last year, and Select Ladies Ensemble and Madrigals this year. I've starting playing the piano recently, as well as writing songs about things I've very passionate about as some sort of outlet.

Over the past couple years, I was diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and OCD. I struggled with these things for quite a while, until I decided Im really going to focus on my music. I started putting a lot of work into my choirs and my own work. I wrote songs to better express the words I was trying to get out, and I really put my emotions into what I was singing to just let everything go. But also, just listening to upbeat and happy music puts me in a better mood where I feel all around more confident and joyful.

For my passion project, I want to inform others how music can help depression and anxiety. I will learn how different genres of music helps your mood, and I will create some type of presentation to show the class how greatly music can lift your mood, as well as bring you down. My goal is to get others to really understand how music can affect your mood, so if they’re feeling down, they can listen to the right type of music to lift them up

The purpose of this project is to inform others how music can help with depression and anxiety. I hope to help others understand how greatly music can affect your emotions and give them a way to turn their negativity into something more positive and uplifting.

I hope to learn how sad and downbeat music affects your brain and how we should steer away from it most of the time.

I would like to see a change in the type of music people listen to, and also an increase in how much music they listen to. Many teenagers listen to music that tends to be slow and sad, which usually makes them feel that way. Instead of listening to sad music when they’re sad, they could listen to upbeat and happy music to lift their mood into something more positive.

I want to tell people how making music is even more stress relieving than just listening. They can then share this with the world and let them know how music has helped them!

I hope to impact my community by offering a students a different way out.  Students can learn what they can do to distract themselves and to learn how to look at the brighter things in life. Maybe I can show students how much music really helped me get out of a pretty dark place. And maybe I can really influence others to find something they really love doing and to help ease the symptoms of mental illnesses.

The problem is that many high school students suffer from depression and anxiety and they dont know where to channel their negative thoughts and so they end up staying stuck in the same mental place.
The solution is getting students to listen to the more uplifting music, even if it takes a while, to change their thoughts into something more positive]]> 2021-09-08 17:08:55 UTC https://padlet.com/krgorup/l6osasj707tteppr/wish/1725551855 krgorup https://padlet.com/krgorup/l6osasj707tteppr/wish/1760688219 To start off, people tend to listen to the genre of music that best matches their mood. For instance, if someone is very depressed, they tend to listen to sad music. If someone continues listening to sad music, they are never going to get out of the trap of depression. The best way to use music to alter your mood, is to slowly change the type of music in which someone with depression listens to. For instance, when someone needs to stop taking a medication, they wean themselves off of it by lessening the dose by the day/week/month. We can do the same with music by starting out where we are, then listening to happier music by the day/week. You'll start connecting more with the happier music the more you keep with it. 

We may not want to make the transition from sad to happy, because in some ways, we like being sad. We don't have to worry about keeping things from going wrong, when they are already wrong and messed up. In other ways, people often get negative attention when they are showing signs of depression. I'm not saying people only claim to have depression to get attention, but its also one reason why some tend to want to be sad. The link below goes more into this topic. It explains why people with depression like sad music, and how you can lose motivation to switch to a different genre. Please take a look.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/85328098/sad-music-and-depression-does-it-help

I would really like to see a change in the type of music that high school students listen to. They can listen to upbeat music to really intensify their happy emotions and to get their mind off of the negative things going on.]]> 2021-09-22 17:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/krgorup/l6osasj707tteppr/wish/1760688219 krgorup https://padlet.com/krgorup/l6osasj707tteppr/wish/1766271117 http://bwhealthcareworld.businessworld.in/article/The-Effects-Of-Music-Genres-On-The-Human-Brain/27-03-2019-168501/

The website above shows how each type of music can affect the brain. Most music genres leave a very positive affect on our brain, whether its by calming us, or relating to the music in a way that makes you feel understood. However, sad music can be both negative and positive. People with depression like sad music because they can relate to it. However, it also keeps you stuck in the depressive state until you transition to a different style of music. Sad music can also intensify the negative emotions that someone is feeling, which can lead to some very bad things. It can make someone with depression feel good for a little while, but it ends up leaving you feeling very horrible. ]]> 2021-09-24 17:39:11 UTC https://padlet.com/krgorup/l6osasj707tteppr/wish/1766271117 krgorup https://padlet.com/krgorup/l6osasj707tteppr/wish/1771930939 One way that I like to express my emotions is to write songs about what I'm feeling. It could be to let a secret off my chest, to let anger or sadness out, or even to write about how happy I've become. Usually these songs are quite personal, so I only share them with those who I am really close with. Its one way that I can tell someone how I'm feeling if I cant put the feeling into words. The flow of the music can really just describe how I'm feeling, and often Ill use words to go more into depth. 

Now, take this into consideration and let your creativity flow. Write your first song, it doesn't matter if you think it is absolutely terrible. Write it to get your emotions out and sing/play it to yourself and observe how you feel afterwards. If you feel comfortable sharing it with others, even a limited group, go right ahead. The more you share with the world how music has affected you and others, the more the world can change for the better and overall become a more positive place. The link below can explain to you how song writing helps with letting emotions out, as well as how to put emotions into your song writing.

https://mysongcoach.com/add-emotion-to-your-lyrics/]]> 2021-09-27 17:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/krgorup/l6osasj707tteppr/wish/1771930939