{"id":15026,"date":"2023-08-31T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=15026"},"modified":"2023-08-31T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T15:19:15","slug":"how-the-arts-can-benefit-your-mental-health-no-talent-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2023\/08\/31\/how-the-arts-can-benefit-your-mental-health-no-talent-required\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Arts Can Benefit Your Mental Health (No Talent Required)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Dr. Frank Clark was in medical school studying to be a psychiatrist, he decided to write his first poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll that chatter that is in my head, everything that I\u2019ve been feeling, I can now just put it on paper and my pen can do the talking,\u201d he said, recalling his thoughts at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back then, he was struggling with depression and had been relying on a number of things to keep it at bay, including running, therapy, medication, and his faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had to find something else to fill the void,\u201d he said. It turned out that poetry was the missing piece in his \u201cwellness puzzle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recovering both physically and mentally from an injury can be one of the most demanding challenges a person can face. There are many ways to recover physically ranging from simply going on walks to attending weekly rehab. What is a much harder challenge to tackle is recovering mentally. The author describes himself as being able to mentally escape through writing poetry, which brings up the idea of using the visual arts to help the injured recover mentally. Most likely being a post-injury\/transport activity, I believe there is room for exploration for placing a system that offers the arts to those injured on the front lines simply catered to helping them recover mentally from whatever they have been through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary When Dr. Frank Clark was in medical school studying to be a psychiatrist, he decided to write his first poem. \u201cAll that chatter that is in my head, everything that I\u2019ve been feeling, I can now just put it on paper and my pen can do the talking,\u201d he said, recalling his thoughts at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":15029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15030,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions\/15030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}