I may have the opportunity to do music therapy soon.
I love music, but Im somewhat sceptical of the whole process.
I don’t really understand how improvising in front of or with someone else is going to improve my well being.
Just wondering if anyone had any experiences that they wouldn’t mind sharing.
I am not artistic. Doing art therapy in the hospital was worse than the symptoms. I don’t want to cut out random pictures out of random magazines and tell 6 strangers how they make me feel. Screw it, I don’t want someone passing me a rock and tell me to describe the sensation. All I want to do when I’m in the hospital is pace, eat, play pool, and sleep. When I open my own psyche ward it’s not going to have any doctors or nurses; just a pool table, food, beds and long, straight hallways.
i had art therapy in all psych wards but i never liked it a lot. In the last psych ward i just read books in art therapy. I looked a the pictures in the books more so cause reading didn’t work well cause of bad concentration.
I had in depth art therapy in a group
But in hospital they were more like crafts sessions
Not done music therapy, but I wrote a couple of songs on my own and they partly covered bits of my life and I found it therapeutic although recording them was a bit of a vanity project
They were love songs / in rap
I’ve done both art and music therapy before inpatient. I really enjoyed both. I almost started crying in music therapy because we were singing Stand by Me.
I did art therapy for a bit. I felt like it helped me wrap my head around my situation, which was cool. But I’ve found CBT better for solving concrete problems.
I’ve had students who did art therapy. They found it helpful. My students were nonverbal though, and many of them couldn’t write. Art was one of the few places they could express themselves.