Has anyone done Art/Music therapy?

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.

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I did art (drawing) therapy while in hospital. I felt it helped. Not sure about music therapy though. Never did that.

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I’ve done art therapy lots of times. It’s relaxing

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Is the goal just to relax? Or is it about confronting things?

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I’m interested in it I definitely feel like it’s a different approach to issues. I wouldn’t mind trying it sometime

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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.

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Done correctly, you’re supposed to deal with issues. I only had a therapist do that once. All the other times it was just coloring or doing crafts

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Could playing music with people be considered therapy?

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I’ve done art therapy, it wasn’t too bad actually…

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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.

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Art therapy on the ward was a nice relief from the boredom and some of the other patient’s work turned out really good!

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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

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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.

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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.

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I did art therapy in PHP before. It was very therapeutic and relaxing. Music and art really can help you to heal and learn to safely express yourself.

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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.

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