Testimonials

His method? Art Therapy. Dr. Art Therapy is a neurosurgeon and alchemist who can tease negative thoughts out of people's brain with a pair of tweezers, an electric eel and a Dixie cup filled with Mercury. I'm just kidding. It's a play on words. Get it? Sorry. He had them go down to a local Art Gallery and create works with crayon and colored pencil that explain their pain.

This stuff really works. The reason I know is because my mom is an art teacher in Chicago's inner city. She does art therapy about three times a year. To see these kid's work is both terrifying and depressing. It really helps people reveal things that they normally wouldn't in normal conversation.

Steven Adler was the first to get some notice for his work. Unfortunately it was for the wrong reasons. Apparently Adler had a dream the night prior that his dog was being kicked but for some reason he was powerless to intervene. This dream was what he chose to reenact on paper and it was too much. He wasn't able to complete his piece. He had to leave the gallery. He walked outside sobbing . Shelly the resident tech talked him back in by assuring him that "everyone in recovery has to go through mom and dad issues..". This is a reasonable and very true statement. I also think it is true that Adler has mom issues that go way beyond the norm. What is "beyond true" is that he is going to have to eventually deal with these issues. Walking out of the art therapy, (he may have completed his piece but they never showed it), is not how he's going to get sober.

Wait here. I'll get you some Play-doh.

Next came Rodney King. He drew a picture of a couple of kids trying climb a bridge over raging river water with one side being "good" and one being "bad" I really didn't like his work. Please don't get mad at me! I'm not judging his actual artwork. What I mean is he (and everyone) was told to do something that magnified and explained their rage and sadness. Rodney did the opposite. He sugarcoated his feelings. If I was to judge all the celebs based just on what I have seen so far on this show I would say that Rodney is probably the best person. However, I think the fact that he is such a great guy allows him to slip through the cracks when it comes to being forced to do the "work" of recovery because his problems aren't on display like MHWG's and/or Jeff. He needs help and someone needs to get some of the bile and anger that he must have living inside of him, come out.

The next batter was Sean Stewart. One piece depicted him in a hallway being bullied by several other children via insulting him about his dad. The next showed some of his drugs of choice bracketed by slashing wavy lines. After explaining the two works he got sort of embarrassed and ripped them in half and exclaimed, "..who cares...nobody.". I couldn't tell if he copped out of showing his true self by dismissing his work or if the ripping and yelling counted as unearthing true anger.

Woah. Literal.

Jeff expanded on the "words in wavy lines" movement started by Jeff. His was the single word, HIT. Jeff explained that he was sexually abused as a child by a man who he now constantly thinks about hitting; even though his molester is long since dead. See, there you go! He stuck to the assignment and ended up revealing something that was clearly a source of anger and pain.

Busey followed up with a depiction of an event that (according to him) happened on December 4th, 1988. He said that "angels of provenciality" surrounded him (whatever the hell that means). None of what he said made any sense but I get the feeling that it made sense to him, which is way more important. It was also clear that he was revealing something that he had kept bottled up for a long time. He wept openly, and declared that he was prepared to join the group. I find it interesting that the two squeakiest wheels got the most out of the exercise. Maybe that's because they are so used to emoting, yelling and whining that they are the only ones who are emotionally equipped to release their feelings. Could it be that the only two people who are truly "recovering" are the most annoying people in the place? God I hope not.

That's a lot of sun. I blame hairspray.

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