Recovery, My Way
What do you do, what do you do-- if you won’t go see psychiatrists or social workers or psychologists or any such associated people any longer, but…you still have issues that bother you? That’s every person’s choice, how they want to heal, recover, break free, or whichever term frames it best. For me, since art and writing always get to the most honest part of me, my heart and soul, turning to those tools makes sense. In the early part of my psych drug withdrawal, illness sapped all my energy, but I could sit at the computer and play with previously saved images of my art. What a great way to express my anger, hook into myself, appreciate where I’d been in life, overcome betrayal and disappointment, and begin easing the constant wish to just die already. I shared what I was doing on social media and found that others related and discovered their own messages within my images, which led me to consider more of what I was trying to reveal to myself. These are some examples, of ne
