Stress Relief and Art

  So I've come across yet another boring article, but since I can relate to the main arguement within the article I thought I'd blog about it anyway. The article argued that art therapy is a stress reliever....Yes. If you couldn't tell from my last post, I am rather stressed. This year just has not been good for me, but I made a promise at the very beginning of my junior year that I intend on staying true to, 'I am going to make it through this year if it kills me.' I'm not dead yet. I am an artistic person, I just love art. Looking at it, making it, if art is somehow involved I just can't go wrong. Last year I took honors drawing and became very close with other students who love art just as much as I do, and made a lasting friendship with my art teacher Mr. Crawford. This year I had to make the tough decision of retaking his honors art class, or going into AP english and taking a ceramics class. English is another passion of mine, and I went with AP, and do not regret that decision. But my junior year has seemed void of happiness, like something was missing. I'm stressed all the time, and just not the same. I stop by Mr. Crawfors room nearly everyday when I have lunch or spare time, and last week he noticed that something was wrong with me. He asked me on a scale of 1-10 how I was feeling, I admitted to being somewhere around a 3. Instantly he had a diagnosis. He said it was because I wasn't creating art. I was stiffling a passion that I loved, stiffling something that was a part of who I was. Art was a form of expression, and without it everything just stayed inside, compressed. We talked other reasons also, but that really stuck with me. That Friday night I got home from gymnastics, and thought. I thought about all that I had to do, all the teachers and coaches who I had to somehow impress, thought about the parents I had to make proud, I thought about all the friends who were trying to spend time with me, and then I thought about myself, and for the first time in a long time, I got out my paints. It was around 11 when I started and 1 when I finished. I had SATs the next day but I didn't care, that was just another test, just another score or grade, just another attempt to proe myself to others, but that canvas with paint on it was me, the essance of an indidual. That night I slept. No tossing or turning, no racing thoughts, no overdosing on cold medicine was needed, I just slept; at peace. SATs came and went, and I don't think I would have gotten through them had I not sat down for two hours and painted. So, getting back to the article, art is a damn good stress reliever.
     "Using Art Therapy For Amazing Stress relief" used logos and ethos. Ethos because the author spoke of personal experiences with art therapy, and logos because they included statistics of people who said art therapy  reduced their stress levels.

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