Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.
I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.
I think therapy interferes with the creative process. It takes off the edge.
I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.
Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.
I really don't feel that writing is therapy.