I have had a flurry of beastly descriptions from people after Draw that Beast was linked somewhere. I'll post the all the descriptions as a stream of thought.
Remember folks, you're always welcome to get visual and email me pictures/photos/montages/drawings/etc. Release the beasts! As always, it's drawthatbeast(at)gmail.com
Cheers
Megan
"Mine looks like a big black mess" - Anon -
"Me with an 'I told you so' smug expression" - Anon -
"Mine is a dimly lit space with no sides but no way out" - Anon -
"A black swirling mass with a frail shrieking creature in the direct center of it" - Anon -
"Grey water, with the surface out of reach" - Anon -
"A big, horrible black storm cloud that wont go away" - Anon -
"A very dark, thick blanket" - Anon -
"A glass vase filled with question marks" - Anon -
"Something out of a horror film- a dark cold scarey fog with a mocking demon that throws insults at you to keep you a prisoner" - Anon -
"Me as a child" - Anon -
"Mine is a crying dark angel who has rapped its wings around himself to shut out the world" - Anon -
"A big thumb pushing me down into the ground" - Anon -
"I see depression as a dark grey cloud - ominous, heavy, sticky and bleak. I can taste it's unpleasant features, feel it's vice like grip. At times it's a monster chasing me through the woods that have no end, over a cliff that has no bottom. It can be scary and ugly, frightening and yet challenging. Depending on what level or form of depression I have I feel like sometimes I can dance with it, play with it, wrap myself up in the cloud and burst the seams with colour and vibrancy - energy far more powerful than the depression. I can feel sorry for it and dialogue with it, make poetry to help it through its dark days. Depression is a friend not a foe. It's hard hard work but when you win it's love it is left with only the name and human meaning of 'depression'. Om shanti" - Anon -
Great site and I'm glad I stumbled onto this.
ReplyDeleteIntegrating art with mental health is a great form of catharsis for some. It's such a useful tool that I sometimes use it with my own clients and even myself.
Some people are just called to express themselves and by not doing so can really give one a sense of being empty.
Good read!
David
www.allthingsdepression.com
Thanks for the kind words, David.
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