Something like Art Therapy isn’t the kind of program that saves lives, it’s more like a gentle encouragement towards positive mental health.
It isn’t like physical therapy, which can help you reclaim your life as well as your health.
Art therapy is just done for relaxation, as well as for trying to get in touch with your creative side. I have found that art therapy can be much more rewarding for people than other kinds of invasive therapy. Instead of talking to a doctor, you talk to your mind’s eye using art as well as creativity. I encourage all of my patients to try using art therapy as a new way to relax as well as unwind, as well as occasionally I also encourage them to try smoking medical cannabis. Personally I use medical cannabis every day, often in conjunction with doing my artwork… Let me explain, because medical cannabis gives a more current dimension to my art, which makes it more cathartic for him. When I am totally clean and sober, it’s difficult for me to focus on the painting. I have intrusive thoughts like “what if it isn’t pretty enough?” or “is this the right color?” Medical marijuana shuts down all those intrusive thoughts to allow my mind to be tranquil as well as placid, so I can just create without thinking. Medical cannabis lets the artwork flow directly out of me as well as onto the canvas, which means I am often surprised by my results. As the haze of medical cannabis slowly leaves my mind, I regularly find a painting which reflects my innermost self. Periodically I think that the medical cannabis is the true artist, as well as it just somehow works through my hands.