Mental Health: Art Therapy

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

It's scary how alone mental illness can make you feel. Everyday, it's as though the entire world is against you, including your own mind. Some days are impossible, made worse by the fact that it always seems like everyone else has their shit together.

I understand what it feels like to be isolated by mental illness. It stops lives.

But, art is my emotional outlet. Like music, it knows what I'm going through.
I look at artwork and I feel emotion. I no longer feel numb. I see a story, something that I can relate to and I don't feel so alone. Someone created something beautiful from my pain, which makes me see it in a whole new light.

Art stimulates something great inside of me, it fuels my soul and inspires me to live.

I found this artwork recently, I really like it because of the use of colour against the monotone. It reminds me that no matter how sad I feel, there is beauty to be found. The world isn't all grey. I love art like this that captures expression too. Her eyes are so sad, it makes me wonder about the artist...

People just don't realise how beautiful they are and drawings like this remind us. 

Macabre art helps me feel pain in a healthy way, it shows me the ugly and the gruesome without needing to harm myself. I especially love morbid takes on common images, it shows me that not everything is straightforward. Anything can be destroyed because we live in such a mortal world.

This drawing of Disney's Belle by Wednesday Wolf is an example.

It's titled 'Beast- To love a monster because he can change' :

Art heals. It changes lives. It changes perspectives.

It's a form of expression, worth a thousand words- words that we could never say. 

If you're intrigued about the art I like, you can follow my Instagram and Pinterest.

Thanks so much for reading!
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