POLYHYMNIA Mood - Coping with depression through music listening

What is it about?

Listening to music can help people cope with negative experiences by alleviating negative moods and feelings. Unfortunately, sometimes people to listen to certain music tracks that can make their mood and depression symptoms worst. To help people making “healthy” choices we created a new app (POLYHYMNIA Mood) that helps people creating personalised music playlists for mood elevation and the reduction of depression symptoms. Here, we provide an overview of POLYHYMNIA Mood and show evidence that demonstrates the potential of this tool to reduce negative feelings and depression symptoms.

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Photo by Fixelgraphy on Unsplash

Photo by Fixelgraphy on Unsplash

Why is it important?

Depression is a hidden "pandemic" and there is an increasingly large number of people living with depression. Unfortunately, many of the affected people do not have access to or receive insufficient treatment. A possible way to deal with this problem is to find new ways to help people preventing and coping with depressive episodes. This work proposes a potentially acceptable, cheap and effective way to help an increasingly larger number of people preventing and coping with depression in everyday life.