Is acting a form of therapy???!


Question: Is acting a form of therapy!?!?!?
I heard a couple of actors beat depression without meds and all that extra stuff!. I've been thinking about acting a long time!. I read a book on emotions and stuff that helps actors be the best they can be!. They feed off of the bad in their lives!.!.past and present!. I somehow see myself doing that same thing!. I was wondering is it known that acting is some form of therapy!? I'm sure it is but I was wondering everyone else' input!.Www@Answer-Health@Com


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Let me ask you this!.!.!.does acting make you feel good!? Does it open your creativity to levels you wernt aware you had!? Does it make you forget about current situations and allow you to enjoy the freedom of being someone different!? If yes,to any of these, than its damn good therapy!. Anything that makes you happy can only be good for the mind and soul!. Regardless of what it is!. Hope this helps!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I absolutely agree!.
In therapy, often the client will 'role play' the desired behavior!.
So yes, whatever is going on in your life, acting can help you deal with it!.
Actually, any kind of creativity can be helpful!. Poetry, painting, song-writing, etc!.
It allows the person the chance to see things differently and get fresh perspective!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Yes it kind of is!. I feel it's a form of therapy when you get into method acting and all!.

If you don't know what method acting is, then it is when the actor doesn't simply play the role but becomes the role!. A method actor is someone like Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman etc!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Psychodrama certainly is a bona fide form of therapy, and a very powerful one, at that!.

See:
http://www!.asgpp!.org/

For more information on an association of practitioners who use this approach!.

~M~Www@Answer-Health@Com

it very well couldWww@Answer-Health@Com





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