He is being treated at a federally financed World Trade Center Health Program at Mount Sinai Medical Center, and he has left his Web designing career to play bass guitar and piano for improvisational theater, which he says soothes his depression.
He returns to Broadway in a transfer of the West End hit "Farinelli and the King" (starting previews Dec. 5, at the Belasco), playing the Spanish monarch Philippe V, who soothes his depression by summoning a silver-voiced castrato (sung by the countertenor Iestyn Davies).
Here she was talking about how jazz music soothed her depression and the need to be merely a performance spectacle, when he pulled an implied rape out of his bag of tricks.
The power of music on the heart and mind has been well documented, including its ability to reduce anxiety and depression, soothe premature babies, increase quality of life for end-of-life patients and even help release dementia patients from a fog.
Previous research has suggested that other techniques can help soothe teenage depression, and several forms of talk therapy have not been tested at all.
Or perhaps it is how the person soothes an underlying depression in in much the same way someone might use food or drugs to distract them from their problems or depression.
But as he matured, food no longer felt like a satisfying way of coping with life's difficulties, a way to soothe over anger, loneliness and depression.
They learn to soothe pain and confusion and depression.
Use it to help soothe anxiety and lift depression.
When a modern politician first used his voice artfully – Franklin D Roosevelt in the 1930s – it was extraordinarily powerful: his measured timbre in the broadcasted "fireside chats" contained and soothed an anxious nation through the Depression.
