- Date posted
- 2y ago
Art against ocd
Does anyone use art to help overcome ocd? I’ve recently got diagnosis, just before Xmas, and have started healing a lifetime of illness from ocd I’m an artist I’ve noticed ocd really flares up when I’m being creative Trying to be perfect, wanting to be sure of outcome etc Last night I realised I could perhaps turn this all on its head and fight ocd with being creative, like treat being creative like a practice, like yoga or meditation, I’ve started doing what’s called automatic drawing where you don’t have any plan, just draw and not correct mistakes etc, so everything is imperfect, my ocd defo hates it, whilst doing it ocd tells me to do one thing, I pretty much do the opposite Anyone else do this? Any tips would be much appreciated