#how to control your anxiety

[anyawellbeing-creativetherapy]

How Music Therapy in Depression Helps? Know with AnyaWellbeing

Music therapy is a creative and expressive form of therapy that can be beneficial in the treatment of depression. It involves using music and musical activities to address emotional, psychological, and social needs of individuals. Here are some ways in which music therapy can be helpful in managing depression:

1. Emotional expression: Music can serve as a powerful tool for expressing and processing emotions. It can provide a safe outlet for individuals to channel and release their feelings, which can be particularly helpful for individuals who find it difficult to express their emotions verbally.

2. Mood enhancement: Listening to or engaging in uplifting and positive music can help improve mood and alleviate depressive symptoms. Music has the ability to evoke emotions, trigger memories, and create a sense of pleasure, which can counteract feelings of sadness or despair.

3. Stress reduction: Engaging with music has been shown to reduce stress and promote relaxation. Listening to calming music, engaging in rhythmic activities, or participating in guided music relaxation exercises can help individuals manage stress levels, which are often heightened in depression.

4. Social connection: Group music therapy sessions can foster a sense of community and connection among individuals with depression. Participating in musical activities with others can promote social interaction, reduce feelings of isolation, and increase a sense of belonging.

5. Cognitive stimulation: Music therapy can stimulate cognitive processes such as memory, attention, and executive functioning. Engaging in musical activities that require concentration, learning new songs or instruments, or engaging in improvisation can help improve cognitive skills and focus, which can be impaired in depression.

It's important to note that while music therapy can be a valuable adjunctive treatment for depression. It is recommended to work with a trained music therapist who can tailor the therapy to individual needs and integrate it into a comprehensive treatment plan. 

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[ink-the-artist]

holy shit I did NOT realize how popular my "I will remove my teeth, for I want to remain kind despite my anger" quote is. I just googled it for fun to see what would come up, a bunch of people are quoting it not knowing who its from, an artist called Kuma made an album titled that, so bizzare

[happi-dreams]

still trying to figure out how to exactly draw these lil guys so more doodles wahoo! ( plus oc woa- )

[basedonconjecture]

I think it’s less that Lucanis dislikes planning or does not plan (I think he quite likes having A Plan, actually, if only to riff off of and even if that plan js extremely simple a la stabbing a cloud) so much as he enjoys looking for and/or leaving himself room for improvisation. He is a professional who has been doing practically the same job for years. If you believe he’s been taking contracts since he was at least 18, and that he’s 35ish by the time of Veilguard, that’s nearly two decades of working as an assassin, with an unknown chunk of that time dedicated to specializing in mage-killing. Long enough to know even the most well-thought out plan will go awry in his line of work simply for who his targets often are. Long enough to have gained the level of experience necessary to be able to improvise as successfully as he does. It’s the difference between a professional athlete/musician/artist and a hall of famer. It’s the thing that sets him apart from any other Crow and makes his particular set of skills needed by the Veilguard team.

We know that he’s good at his job, enough to have a reputation outside of the Crows for his work, and part of that is, yes, presenting as bit of a wild card to would-be enemies so that he doesn’t become predictable. Which… does actually require a level of forethought to keep from unintentionally falling into the same patterns. We see in WMJ how much pre-planning went in to getting inside the party—unless you believe he just has enough latent knowledge of Vyrantium’s layout to be able to use the aqueducts or that all elves just inherently trust him with their secret passages or that he dragged Illario along with him and gave him access to the dossier he wrote on the target for no reason. Also, too, if you believe said dossier does not contain anything he would have had to spend time gathering and compiling and only info he got… passively? I guess??

Most of his behavior in Veilguard reads to me as someone who is internalizing enough failure to doubt all of his abilities and also is reacting to the reality they know too little about what they’re up against—improvisation is really all he’s able to do. Setting aside the fact that he’s not the boss of this job and consistently offers his thoughts during team meetings, the whole team is flying by the seat of their pants and relying on their skills to carry them through. This is reinforced over and over again as the plot progresses. More to the point, it’s consistently highlighting how high the stakes actually are and how skilled the team is that they’re able to keep adapting.

Idk it’s just more interesting to me that Lucanis seems to be someone who thinks in terms of variables (to say nothing of what the unpredictability of his childhood likely endowed him with irt how he approaches the world) and leans into his ability to pivot and adapt (which is not a skill many people have or understand irl tbh and it is a skill), not because of an allergy to planning or inability to stick to a plan, but because he does plan enough and is so confident in what he does that he intentionally leaves himself room to go off script when it becomes necessary— and for him it is a when, not an if. Something something his rebellions against Caterina. It makes his self-doubt in VG hit harder, tbh. The one thing he’s been raised to be good at and he’s failing at it. It’s gifted child burn out in extreme mode while he’s working under conditions he legitimately cannot plan for in the way he would any other contract. Which the team keeps having to remind him of.

It is additionally more interesting to me that Lucanis is someone who has earned his ability to improvise over some… natural ability at winging it and keep coming out alive bc idk assassin prodigy.

[bardnuts]

did you guys know a significant antidote to social anxiety is accepting that you are annoying sometimes, and that your annoying qualities are not going to make your friends abandon you

Like, I think of social anxiety as a kind of failure of object permanence. It's this idea that your bonds with and value to other people is inherently fragile.

but actually in my experience it takes a lot before someone who really cares about you would even consider not caring about you anymore. like, a lot. bc guess what: human care and friendship is real and also one of the most powerful forces in the universe. being annoyed at each other is like one of the fundamental pillars of human relationships

[adaines-furious-feast]

hey you like stepfather jace, but what about

actually adaine's father, jace

adaine, who has the one weird elvish ending, that the rest of the family doesn't wen/wyn versus adaine's -e.

and jace, who has the same -e suffix.

adaine, who has always felt different from her family and she *is* different. she's not an abernant

and jace, who maybe doesn't know it until the abernants leave. and now he's trying to pursue a custody case bc he's a better father than his or angwyn. and yet, he's still trying to ressurect a dead goddess and is in trouble w/ porter

idk i just think it would be an interesting wrinkle for them

Hey. You stop that (please never stop).

I'm rewatching sophomore year and so far (up to end of ep 11), Ragh has specified three times that it was Jace he saw talking to Arianwen. About what? Well, it's Arianwen telling him that Adaine's his daughter, obviously.

And at first Jace is fully ready to just scoop her up and take her in but then he finds out Jawbone beat him to the punch and Jawbone - who is an ex-drug dealer/addict with so much past - seems like a much better father than he could ever be. But he is never gonna let a kid think he abandoned them, even if it would be for the best.

Trying to figure out how he's going to go about this without making Adaine's life even worse. Meanwhile Porter's pissed because Jace is just so distracted. Like, one of the good things about Jace is that he doesn't really have anything serious going on in his life and now he has a daughter?

Anyway, Adaine ends up with two dads that love her (Jawbone and Jace in some weird shared custody arrangement) and maybe the events of junior year get avoided and maybe I have another thing to add to my to-write list.

[galindatopland]

new psychiatrist seems really cool

[lunarflare64]

Horror game where mouse sensitivity/camera sensitivity goes up during moments of panic or anxiety and the player has to be careful with how aggressively they look around because they could get so disoriented from the movement that it gets them killed

[michameinmicha]

Going to the botanical garden is fun until you are standing in front of the millionth incredibly edible looking plant and your impulse control is wearing reeeeaaally thin by now...

[dewgongs]

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[therefugeofbooks]

had a bad day at work yesterday

[patron-saint-of-emesis]

todays concepts to grapple with are “accept Done over Perfect” and also “change is an inevitable constant”, both are very good sentiments that will better my life when i accept them, but it also means not restarting my crochet project and to stop staring at my face so hard in the mirror, and ima be real both of those r suck

[irregodless]

inside out 2 is interesting but it sure is the exact same plot as inside out 1 down to the emotions getting stranded outside hq as a core aspect of rileys isbeliminated and having to start from scratch while joy loses hope and cries while watching memories in a pile of memories that were deemed unimportant before being deus ex machinad by an imaginary cartoon

[jackass-jones]

Starfire teen titans my best friend Starfire id burn alive for you