Using Art For Healing Trauma

Just an experiment. For some reason I couldn't find my picture files. Eventually they were located. I have found that if I don't write down every step of the posting a picture process, I will lose the steps and then have many frustrating moments trying to put them back together. It is difficult to say if this is part of growing old or my head injury. I have a sign on my desktop that says: Remember, never give up hope! Recovery is possible!
     Is it really possible to recover from head trauma? How much can you repair and how much is lost forever? A friend who has known me a very long time said that I changed after the injury. My thoughts were not the same. I became more separate from my mind. There was a gulf there that could not be bridged. 
Head trauma is frightening. There is the fear that more and more of ones's identity will be lost. Medications help and hinder. Depression is a constant companion. Anger pushes people away. It is frustrating trying to communicate what one is feeling when feelings are a novelty. What might have been a very intimate acquaintance with ones's feelings may suddenly feel like they are someone else's. I spent years in recovery trying to make sense of my emotions. Rage was a constant companion. Eventually this abated. But it pushed people away and alienated them in the meantime. How do you tell the people you love that the irrational behavior you just engaged in was just a response to your brain injury? How do you believe it yourself? And what do you tell yourself when it feels like you are going insane?

      Art is meditation. And it helps you calm down. It centers you when you feel as if you have no center. Art is going to another place inside you. Current theory says that art uses a section of the brain that is not as often accessed. When I suffered my head injury I discovered that I was much more creative as time went on. Not at first. Too much harm had been done. But the brain is amazing, it rebuilds itself through what some consider play. Colors, shapes, lines, strange words that pop out of nowhere and you have no memory of ever have used before.It is like taking a journey to a place that you've never been to before...