Art Therapy

[ZebraAutismo]

Today I started art therapy, has anyone done it? What are your experiences of it?

 

[Judge]

Personally I've always thought most any art form/hobby I pursue is therapy.

 

[ZebraAutismo]

Personally I've always thought most any art form/hobby I pursue is therapy.

I have also felt calmer when doing artistic endeavour but today I went to my first session with the art therapist the collage organized for me.

 

[Kirsty]

I've been and although I didn't cry, it still moved me in a way inside. I was able to express myself in my art. I slept better and felt connected hearing everyone's stories. It lasted all weekend! <3

 

[ZebraAutismo]

I've been and although I didn't cry, it still moved me in a way inside. I was able to express myself in my art. I slept better and felt connected hearing everyone's stories. It lasted all weekend! <3

Was yours group sessions?

 

[Kirsty]

Yes.

 

[NeoPhile]

If you could call poetry art, I've done poetry and I've found it therapeutic. Sometimes if I feel a panic attack coming on, I grab a pen and some paper and just write whatever comes to mind. That helps me calm down.

 

[Ambi]

I haven't done art therapy with a real therapist - but I have found drawing and working with colors to be very therapeutic - not in any rational way that I can explain, but all I know is it helped untangle deeply rooted emotional knots and conflicts, perhaps too deep and complex for me to communicate verbally, so resolving them through art was more effective. I hope it goes well for you!

 

[ZebraAutismo]

Yes.

Oh that's interesting mines a one on one with an art therapist.

 

[ZebraAutismo]

I haven't done art therapy with a real therapist - but I have found drawing and working with colors to be very therapeutic - not in any rational way that I can explain, but all I know is it helped untangle deeply rooted emotional knots and conflicts, perhaps too deep and complex for me to communicate verbally, so resolving them through art was more effective. I hope it goes well for you!

I get that art has always helped when i'm emotional.

 

[ZebraAutismo]

If you could call poetry art, I've done poetry and I've found it therapeutic. Sometimes if I feel a panic attack coming on, I grab a pen and some paper and just write whatever comes to mind. That helps me calm down.

Interesting poetry frustrates me too much for that to work but i'm glad it helps you.

 

[Kirsty]

mines a one on one with an art therapist.

That sounds a bit intimidating; to me anyway.

 

[ZebraAutismo]

That sounds a bit intimidating; to me anyway.

The group thing sounds more intimerdating to me.