About us, who we are, why this website was created.

I started this website, or blog, originally for my daughter. My daughter deals with depression and anxiety. Some days are good, and some days she struggles.

She is a very good artist. Drawing, painting, writing, playing musical instruments. She has a lot of artistic talent.

As I have be helping her with her own struggles I began to learn what Art Therapy is and how it was helping her. I began doing more research about art therapy and decided to put together this website.

There is a lot more to art therapy than just making art. It can be listening to music. Looking at other peoples art that you enjoy. Even the work that you do at a job.

As I was helping my daughter I began to realize I had some of the same struggles that she is dealing with. I just always tried to ignore those feelings and keep moving on with life.

This site started out as away to help my daughter, but my goal is to help myself and others that read the articles on this site.

Now I want to tell you a little more about myself. I am in my 40’s and spent most of my working life as an electrician building automation machines. What that means is I use to build machines with robots inside of them and the electrical control panels that operated those robots.

Here is an idea of what I use to build.

I also use to build the electrical control panels for all kinds of machines, large and small. The next image is of a large control panel. I have built many of these over the years.

Because of some health issues in recent years I had to make a job change. I now work in an office. That is a good thing because building that equipment in the pictures is a lot of hard work and a lot of working hours!

In my office job I help people over the phone with there equipment. It is a great feeling when you are able to help someone out, even if it is at a distance over the phone.

As I said before I always ignored my struggles. Honestly I didn’t know how to handle them, and what I would say something about my struggles I just got the common responses from people.

“Your a guy, just deal with it.”

“It’s all in your head”

“You just want attention”

“Your overreacting”

The list go’s on and on. Anyone that is dealing with struggles for a long time has heard all these common things said to them. I use to just keep it all inside me and continue on with my work…….for years!

It wasn’t until I started doing research for this website that I realized that building that electrical equipment was my art therapy. There are days I wish I could build some of that equipment again because it gave me a creative outlet.

I named this site Depression Drawing because when people are depressed or their anxiety is high many people draw or paint. I can’t do either. I never could!

That’s when I realized that building electrical equipment was my creative outlet. I always wanted my work to be seen as professional, orderly, clean, and easy to understand.

Since I no longer can do that type of work I needed to find another way to have a creative outlet. Since I work in an office now I still want to be seen as professional, orderly, clean.

I organize my desk to be the most efficient at my job. When I am speaking with a customer I do my best to get the information they need as quickly as possible to help them with their current struggle with the machine they have.

This helps, but it didn’t seem like enough.

That’s when I realized that doing research into how art therapy and its infinite artistic ways of expression are helping me. It is helping me understand more about my internal struggles. It is helping me understand more about my daughters struggles. And it is helping me understand more about how other people have struggles I never knew about.

Everytime I put a piece of content on this site, like an article, I hope that the person that needs it will find it. It helped me as I created the content.

I am not a great writer. I am not the best at building a website. But I am learning and improving.

This website that was started to help my daughter has helped me even more. I may not be building physical machines anymore with my hands, but I am building a digital “machine” that I hope helps other as much as it is helping me.

Everyone needs creative outlets. I never thought a website would be one of mine. But here it is, this is my Art Therapy!