Art can empower and reshape life styles to better adapt to long-term conditions. 

 

It is an outlet that portrays the subjective experience of illness.

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The patient journey can be a draining encounter                     most of the time. The roller coaster ride that continues. Be it new symptoms, side effects from drugs, flare ups to mood swings.

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As a personal narrative as well as a record,

 Why not try visual story telling with digital art?

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It helped me immensely to face overwhelming periods        during my patient journey.

 

Arts may be a powerful tool - adjusting to illness/pain, accompanying ​what medicine has to offer. For many, addressing the physical element alone is not enough. The emotional and spiritual elements are all part of us.

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Given the increasing demands​ on health resources, the arts have the potential to assist in promoting ​health and healing. Creativity can be a reservoir of healing.

 

Through my work, I would like to contribute towards raising public awareness of the following:

 

 

1. The life-changing course invisible, inflammatory conditions tend to have on patients. The ripple effects it causes on numerous aspects of their lives                                                                                    

2. Harnessing the creative side to cope with day-to-day challenges brought on by the illness can be constructive as well as an enjoyable pursuit                          

3. The role of art in long term illness, it's potential therapeutic benefits and its use in the multidisciplinary approaches to self-management                                                                 

4. To promote the role of digital apps/medium for creativity, especially for people with functional limitations due to Rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions.

              

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Despite some challenging physical and emotional circumstances, there's still beauty within unpleasant situations.

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Adaptive coping with newer ways to work around limitations & Integrating creativity to healing can transform illness experience.

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I hope others will benefit from my example by tapping into their inner creativity and incorporating art or similar creative ways into their own healing.    

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