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Sad music is a type of immersion therapy. Confronting your fears is always the best way to overcome them. I think sadness and depression also require validatio

Sad music is a type of immersion therapy. Confronting your fears is always the best way to overcome them. I think sadness and depression also require validation. Stewing on it is good if it is therapeutic, bad if it encourages helplessness.

johnchristopher 8y ago
> Sad music is a type of immersion therapy. Confronting your fears is always the best way to overcome them. I couldn't stress this enough. Also there is a danger when in a depressive(depressed?) state to stay in it by feeding back the beast. I got stuck for two days once listening non-stop to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAcALH67-2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAcALH67-2A (Hans Zimmer - Time (OST "Inception") │ Fingerstyle guitar) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuEEEwgdAZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuEEEwgdAZs (Hans Zimmer - INTERSTELLAR⎪12 STRING FINGERSTYLE GUITAR). I suspect the sadness I experience when listening to it comes from the threads I weaved between elements of my own life and those movies. Now I can't listen to those tracks anymore. I mentionned that because the sad track (adagio for strings) used in the experiment is a happy one for me since it reminds me of the Homeworld opening sequence (which bring elements of "let's move forward" and "let's fight for our lives").