Art Therapy

[OldDoorGunner]

 

[Spock]

Like that a lot! Well done...

 

[Spock]

Know we posted this before somewhere but here it is again for the writers:
http://o-dark-thirty.org/

 

[Spock]

Please support these folks and anyone speaking, signing, writing, drawing or talking about their beast. It is very powerful for them and us, anyone dealing with it...even the families. I saw this show and it was very good, especially how they addressed their conditions and what haunted them right up front. Highly recommend you check it out! Also, gave me an idea for a new thread on PTSD Jokes:

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[bemental]

Two cents, I participate in art therapy (or, as I like to put it on the schedule that I turn in to my boss, "Expression and Conjecture") and when it works, it absolutely works.

For me, it activates a completely different part of my psyche and I no longer feel like 'that guy with the messed up brain'. It allows me to escape, unknowingly, to a place where I can relax, forget, and just be.

The group I participate in has a LCSW and a psychologist who attempt to bring things together at the end (analyze and tease out meaning from our day's work). Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't - but it feels like magic when it does.

 

[vikingr12]

One of the reasons I held off from posting in this thread is I packed so much into life when I got back. I think now that I had an instinct for survival when I knew I had to write about it, paint it, and sing and play music. Sometimes I think it helped me hide it. In fact, probably most of the time.

Recognotion came slowly but it did come. Keep at it guys.

 

[Spock]