| Eating Disorders and Art Therapy - Communicating without Words |
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| Written by Karen Hardess | ||||||
Page 4 of 4 To a certain extent, if anorexia was used as a numbing agent, art therapy brought the pain into the open.... Anorexia had replaced the need to communicate my feelings because it had become the answer to all my problems. Art therapy had helped and guided me back to communication with others. The relevance of producing imagery during therapeutic sessions was a vital link between myself and the outside world.
The art therapy sessions spanned a year and it was easy to see the improvement made just through the sessions themselves. Ironically, this was highlighted at the end by hardly any drawing done during the sessions. They were mainly talking. At last through the visual language I had found my voice and a confidence to communicate. Although this article focuses on eating disorders among women, it is no longer just a women's issue and many adolescent and adult males suffer from this disease as well. It is eating disorders awarenessweek from February 3 -9, 2008. During this week , and everyday after, remember that we are more than our weight and appearances and that there are other ways to communicate our anger, powerlessness and suffering without directing it inward towards our bodies. Resources from the following texts:
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