I used to only like color by numbers because I liked how you didn’t have to think about it but now I’m realizing normal coloring is a great mode of expression and creativity in itself. Here is something I colored recently, and I tried to put a lot of meaning and emotions into it. It was cathartic and relaxing at the same time. I’d definitely recommend coloring to creative folk who need a new hobby to unwind. There’s something cool about giving deeper meaning to an originally blank and meaningless image. 
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IS THIS AN EMOTIONAL OUTLET…
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Yep! Very much so
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My mum got me an adult colouring book for xmas. Haven’t tried it yet.
It’s also cool how different people can give the same image completely different meaning and tone depending on how they color it.
True. I personally like what you did with that picture 
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I only found out recently that there are adult colouring books. I was looking for a children’s book as a present and came across them. It looks very therapeutic.
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I’m the yellow dot at the center, light. The dark green represents life. I’m using my life force to push off death/depression (black) and paranoia/fear (purple). Not only this but delusions as well, which are represented by the pretty flowers. However the flowers’ beauty is false as represented by the colors surrounding them. Black and pale green (nothingness). Red in all but the sunrises signifies anger/bitterness. You can see the red dots are surrounded by fear and push life into darkness. Anger born by fear leads to depression and an unhappy life. There are two sunrises signifying hope that pushes me towards the future and away from the past, towards a life that rather than being filled with darkness, only has some bad times and is mostly good. (The green with small black triangle) Beams of light from this hope pierce the darkness that surround everything in my life. The demons are made of fear and anger/hatred, thus the purple and red colors. The yellow eyes are meant to represent disgust in this case. Their eyes are huge and watching me. However the yellow orbs (light, goodness) keep them away from me in the center. The pink that holds the sunrises to my life is love, for family and friends that give me hope.
That’s all.
I discovered coloring at a Psych Ward. It was a great activity when I was manic and is good now when I’m anxious or stressed (maybe there’s no difference between anxious and stressed for me).
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There’s adult dot to dot as well.
It is very relaxing. I have a dot to dot book where each picture has 1000 dots to join.
Woah I never heard of that, I’ll look out for it
It’s soothing, isn’t it, @Anna? I love layering color upon color, it takes me forever to finish anything.
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Your coloring is abstract, i think.