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Life As A Drummer

Research by Help Musicians UK in 2016 in found that 71.1% of drummers had experienced high levels of anxiety and/or panic attacks whilst 68.5% reported experiencing depression, meaning that drummers are three times as likely to experience depression than the national average.

Participants of the study reported that, though they found the creation of music therapeutic, they found the pressures of working within the music industry detrimental to their psychological well-being.