I really like art therapy! There's anything from structured groups to just doing the art yourself and maybe bringing it in to your therapist if you want. Basically the structured art therapy is usually done in a group setting. in the hosp they called it occupational therapy. just free drawing/painting/collage can get people relaxed enough to talk. then there are usually set projects - draw how your feeling inside, draw how you want to be feeling, do a collage of life goals. it can be about using art to transform the chaos we feel into something we can make sense of an heal. the art can show us a way out of the abyss.

what i do at home is a lot of found object collage and mixed media stuff. it helps me to get my mind off of stuff, helps to occupy my time and makes me feel like i can get something accomplished. ive also done some work that has helped illustrate some of the trauma i went through.