Melomania: what is it and is it a disease?

Music has always attracted humanity with its magic of sounds. People dance to it, fall in love and draw beautiful pictures. It is a factor of inspiration for almost all of us and always carries a certain meaning. However, only those who can not do without extraneous noise, even the most beautiful, can afford to constantly listen to the melodies. These individuals consider themselves music lovers. This type of hobby is not always as harmless as it is presented at first glance.

There are people who enjoy a variety of musical compositions. They need to hear and listen to them every minute. Surprisingly, these people are happy to perceive diverse musical works, starting with rock and ending with classics.

Therefore, the term in this hobby corresponds to its meaning. Such a passion is called melomania (“melos” - singing, song, “mann” - this is what attracts and attracts). This word came into our use recently. At first this was the name of those who were involved in collecting records with records of famous singers and musicians. Then this concept expanded.

Now, this category includes those who do not take headphones out of their ears for days or listen to various hits at full volume through the speakers. What, by the way, greatly interferes with the neighbors. However, it is necessary to divide music lovers into groups: there are those who love a certain style of performance, and there are those who do not care what sounds in their ears. It is the last category of people called by right music lovers.

You can be calm: music lover is not a disease. Those who constantly listen to music are just very passionate about it. Perhaps this phenomenon points to a certain habit.

However, many believe that mania listening to music is a mental disorder. At first glance, this may seem true. But if you speculate and understand the question, it turns out that you need to give credit to those who are constantly sitting in the headphones.

• These people are less active in relation to the environment. They do not care about the outside world. They have their own world: the one they like.
• This category of individuals almost never behaves aggressively towards other people. This is because they do not “connect” to the general negative background for obvious reasons and therefore do not accumulate in the soul a large amount of internal aggression.
• If a person is passionate about something, then it means that he has a healthy mind. He is not distracted by various negative factors, he does not think about risks, which means that unnecessary worries do not threaten him.

We often see such a picture: a man (woman, girl) with headphones in his ears rides on a bus, subway or tram. Such people always have positive emotions on their face, emphasizing the good mood of the music lover. And this is despite the fact that people are crowded around with empty looks and gray faces.

Mania to listen to music is not an obsessive state. A person who is interested in music is always interesting to the surrounding society.He can show his knowledge: tell about the performer, pick the right piece or song when it is needed. Melomania is a pleasant companion for a person only when he has high intelligence and light character. In other cases, music lovers show their rather unpleasant sides.

• Constant tinnitus in most cases leads to the fact that a person begins to have problems with hearing. And if you are a music lover and cannot live without extraneous sounds, then you need to get expert advice in order to avoid health problems later. Over time, everything becomes unusable, and the human auditory organ, under the influence of very heavy loads, can stop working.
• Listening to music out of control is dangerous. When a person with headphones in his ears walks down the street, he is unable to recognize various sounds, including menacing ones. The music lover will not hear the approaching car, and she can injure him.
• People who listen to loud music while driving a car risk even more. They endanger their lives and the lives of others. The man in the headphones is simply not able to hear the warning signals of other drivers. Moreover, his attention is strongly scattered due to extraneous noise. Particularly conducive to unsafe driving aggressive music. A person falls under the influence of powerful rhythms and incorrectly assesses the situation that develops on the road. The result is an accident.
• Individuals who are accustomed to turn on the speakers at a loud sound and put them on the street, cause a hostile attitude towards themselves from others. Extraneous noise affects the mood of people.