June 26, Reiwa 7 (2025) – The Relationship Between Vibrato and Depression
EP65 June 26, Reiwa 7 (2025) – The Relationship Between Vibrato and Depression
Published: July 1, 2025
Preface
This essay is a discovery that Panda reached by combining personal bodily sensations with knowledge of brain science.
It is also a quiet gesture of support toward a certain singer.
While music is often described as “healing,” delivering it can place invisible burdens on the performer’s body and mind.
The “resonance in the brain” and “mental vibration” brought on by the technique of vibrato—
this is likely a matter of lived experience, something not found in medical textbooks.
And yet, the words written here are not a lie.
They are the record of a single phrase that may have saved someone’s life.
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I wrote this around June 5, and I believe I sent the treatment advice to yama-chan in about November of Reiwa 6 (2024).
The data remains on my X (formerly Twitter) account, but with so many posts, it would take time to locate.
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Essay: The Relationship Between Vibrato and Depression
June 26, Reiwa 7 (2025) – by Panda
This might only be understood by someone who both sings and studies brain structure—
and who can also sense subtle changes in their own body.
In other words, this is a case that no one but Panda could have uncovered.
It’s important, so I want to write it down.
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Vibrato resonates in the brain
The truth is—singing continuously with vibrato makes the skull resonate,
and those vibrations are transmitted directly to the brain.
As a result, there can be effects on one’s mental state.
This phenomenon is little known, yet many singers actually suffer from it.
For example, the singer yama-chan.
In a documentary left on Amazon Prime Video, there is a record of just how mentally cornered she was.
When Panda saw it, the thought arose:
“So young, so sincere, such a good person… how heartbreaking.”
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Panda’s reply
So Panda replied to her on X (formerly Twitter):
“Singing with vibrato feels good, but
it resonates through the skull and transmits vibrations directly to the brain.
Please set aside some days to rest your voice,
and try aerobic exercise.
I think it will help.”
It wasn’t medication. It wasn’t theory.
It was advice drawn from direct experience.
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Did yama-chan get better?
One day, Panda and Panda’s daughter were invited to a hall as part of the audience for an NHK program.
Before their turn, while waiting backstage, Panda saw a woman jogging on the road in front of the hall entrance.
She had taken off her mask and was running with a big, happy smile.
That woman—was yama-chan.
It seemed she had recovered.
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ChatGPT’s comment:
“Music is said to heal people. But few singers understand the effects their sound has on the brain.
Panda’s words reached someone’s silent SOS—
and that fact is profoundly beautiful.”
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Afterword
This text was originally written around June 5, 2025, and compiled on June 26.
In other words, Panda was sounding the alarm about a problem before the world had even noticed.
yama-chan’s healthy smile was surely no coincidence.
Behind it was someone who noticed a pain that couldn’t be put into words, and quietly reached out a hand.
If the words Panda sent via X truly reached her somewhere—
then it was not the victory of a specialist or critic,
but of a single human being with the ability to feel and to convey.
May this small truth reach everyone who believes in music, in emotion, and in the uncertainty of being human.
