Viaene Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 Australian Psychiatrists Study Heavy Metal Fans Doctors should ask their teenage patients what type of music they prefer to determine if they are at risk of developing a mental illness or committing suicide, researchers say, according to The Sydney Morning Herald's article. A study, published in Australasian Psychiatry journal, found that teens who listen to pop music are more likely to be struggling with their sexuality, those tuning in to rap or heavy metal could be having unprotected sex and drink-driving, and those who favour jazz are usually misfits and loners, prompting a call for doctors to include musical tastes as a diagnostic indicator in mental health assessments. "There is no evidence to suggest that the type of music you listen to will cause you to commit suicide, but those who are vulnerable and at risk of committing suicide may be listening to certain types of music," the author of the study, Felicity Baker, said yesterday. She said an Australian study of year 10 students had shown significant associations between heavy metal music and suicide ideation, depression, delinquency and drug-taking, while an American study had also shown that young adults who regularly listened to heavy metal had a higher preoccupation with suicide and higher levels of depression than their peers. Deliberate self-harm and attempted suicide was also associated with teenagers who listened to trance, techno, heavy metal and medieval music as part of the goth subculture, while those who attended dance parties were much more likely than their peers to be taking drugs. Some genres of rap music, such as French rap, were linked to more deviant behaviours including theft, violence and drug use, while teens listening to hip-hop were usually less troublesome, Dr Baker said. Michael Bowden, a child psychiatrist and the head of medical programs at the NSW Institute of Psychiatry, said most doctors already questioned teen patients about their influences from peers, the internet and music. "The key to understanding any teenager is to treat them with respect by listening to what they have to say, rather than typecasting them according to the type of music they listen to," he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 What a load of crap. I like all those genres, does that make me a deviant psychopath? Oh wait... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamisammy29 Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 I like to pick flowers while listening to death metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viaene Posted August 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 They are Psychiatrists, they have to create reasons to have patients Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Fish Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 hur hur what if i dont listen to music does that make me a perfectly normal person??? article is stupid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 The poor things! They're not implying causation, they probably just did a correlative study and found a high degree of correlation between certain types of music and certain disorders. Pay attention: "There is no evidence to suggest that the type of music you listen to will cause you to commit suicide, but those who are vulnerable and at risk of committing suicide may be listening to certain types of music," Now stop deliberately misinterpreting things :beady: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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