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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 216908" data-attributes="member: 9240">Creating art of any kind can be one of the greatest healers there is.  When you read the biographies of the great painters, poets and songwriters you often learn of tortured pasts and personal struggles.  Being able to channel that pain can, indeed, be life saving - and not just for the artist but for those who experience the art.  How many songwriters have written from a dark place only to be told years later that a song changed a life forever?  It makes me wonder whether the trend in education in the US to de-emphasize and even eliminate the arts over the last several decades, and the subsequent rise in suicide rates among teens has any correlation?  I would contend that it does.Good stuff.</blockquote>