Hey Shen, I was just curious. You seem to have pulled yourself out of a depressive state through your art, and I want to know how you did it. Because I'm stuck in a hole that gets deeper every time I try to crawl out of it and I've lost all motivation to draw and write and play music. How can I use my art as an outlet to get better?
-I think my art is just incidental in all of this. I’m not a therapists or psychiatrist, and have no experience in mental health at all, but just some layman’s advice:
1. Keep in mind that only you can pull yourself out of this state. Seeing a therapist might help, and medications might help, but many of these things aren’t meant to be permanent arrangements. Only you can make significant changes in your life.
2. Take 1 healthy risk per day. Do something a little out of your comfort zone in a healthy way – initiate a conversation with a stranger, cook a recipe, apply for a job, accept a friend’s invite to go hiking. Do something positive that you’re tempted to say “no” to, overcome that temptation.
3. Do the stuff that you “need” to even if it feels silly, or like there’s no purpose in it. If you’re a student, go to school, do your homework, work on group projects. If you work, go to work, try your best. You can scoff at the pointlessness of it, and feel silly, but still just do it. It’s the type of thing that doesn’t make sense until later.
Again, I have no real experience in mental health, this is just advice that helped me. Grain of salt, etc.
Also a few numbers from the replies, courtesy of @soma-gestalt
1-855-995-9489 is the number for a mental health hotline for questions. Or for emergencies 1-800-273-8255 or 911.
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