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 Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:38 pm
anyone focus on art therapy before. my cousilor thought it might help with this whole katrina trauma, all i want to paint or do is stuff related to new orleans and/or the storm..im wondering am i expresing and working this stuff out or am i just dwelling, then again my usual methods seprateme from the trauma all togethor, somaybe im nudging somthing up and my natural instinct just wants me to put it back in the box??/ coments?
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:42 pm
I've always wanted to try art therapy. I haven't done the research to see if it would be harmful to express your feelings about something that you're having trauma over, though. I think it's probably worth a try. If you find that you're not ready for this level of expression and the emotion it brings, you can always set it aside for later.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:40 am
weeeeel, i tend to put things away for later..much late..somewhere around never. so i think what she(my counsilor) is about is to get me to not avoid and disconnct and actully face the s**t..but, thisis not exactly my style. its defintly crunching my nerves. i guess ill give it a go though for a bit, i i mean it does get me talking..which is a big step, cuz i dont talk, i smake smart a** comments now and again but i cettinly dont talk..y know about ..the stuff.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:08 pm
That's cool that it gets you talking about it! Sounds like a great outlet for your emotions!
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:52 am
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Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:02 pm
My foster mom is a art therapist. I can totally preach its value. I think everyone should try it, not just people with mental health problems. My other mom (real mom) who is one of the most mentally healthy people on the planet did a bit just as part of her line of work to try it out (she's a transition house co-ordinator for abused women and their children) and she got a lot from it, too, and she just did 2 exercises.
Sometimes, actually a lot of the time, stuff can come up that you never even noticed before or realized was a problem and sometimes looking at that stuff can really help with any other problems you may be having.
Yeah, I recommend. If you go into a session with a open mind and a therapist you trust art therapy can be hugely rewarding.
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Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:25 am
I did art therapy for three months while I was an IP and I loved it! I got so much out of it and I never realised it's value before.
The only thing that I stress is that you make sure it is someone who's focus is on art therapy, not therapy. When I did art in therapy they're like 'quickly, draw a house' so I drew a normal house and they assumed because it was normal looking I was normal. They didn't take into account that I was rushed by them (and that I was doing it left handed and in a whole lot of pain in my right and just wanted to get the whole thing over with).
But in art therapy she didn't mind if pieces were unfinished and didn't care about how they looked, it was about getting feelings out. If she told us to draw a house for instance she didn't care how it was done, with what materials or whether it looked even remotely like a house. If you just got the paintbrush and kept hitting the paper, she'd ask if that's what it was like at home instead of saying it's a crappy looking house.
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:10 am
Used to be in Art Therapy, considered goin' into it as a profession myself... It is a great outlet, and it allows ya a constructive way to release the feelings that you have in a way that you might not be able to in words.
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:28 pm
Well, it wasn't a specific art therapy program, but when I was in school (I went to school for art) I took a class whose focus was to work with kids in a children's psychiatric hospital doing art projects. We studied a lot about art and healing as well as alternative healing techniques, and used the art as a way of forming bonds with the children. It was often quite difficult, but even when the child didn't want to talk, they almost always wanted to do the art. (And get their hands in everything, heheh.)
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Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:57 am
art theropy i have never tried... but i think what your couseler is trying to do is for you to accept what happened and not try to go against it... and not to dweelll on it either ... more like its a chapter of your life...and then move on... /// i don't think im making any sense... sorry
*black-nine*
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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:09 pm
Art therapy sounds like a good idea. I've tried to draw pictures when I am feeling ill and despite the fact that they are disorganized and rarely make sense (like my thinking sometimes), It makes me feel better.
I think that the art that comes out of people is a good indicator of what's going on their heads.
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:38 am
I do art therepy and it seems to help me. I even want to become an art therepist.
As to your working out v. dwelling question, I don't know. Maybe it's both? But I know that my art therepist doesn't just go "here, draw something." She often has some sort of "project" in mind to help me work through something. Like she'll give a senerio and say "now show me what happens on paper," and then another prompt and more illustrating. Then we go back and try to figure out why I drew/painted/etc. what I did. Or she'll have me deal with emotion using watercolors or something...
I don't know how your art therepy works, but I would try breaking it down. Maybe break it into emotions you feel, reoccuring images, and how they relate to each other, but seperately. That might help you a little. Sorry if it makes no sense.
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