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When personal trauma becomes creative material

My therapist suggested I make art about my trauma but every time I try it feels exploitative of my own pain and I do not know if healing and art should mix

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The boundary between authentic expression and self-exploitation blurs when pain becomes the primary source of artistic content.

Ideas that help explain it
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