A Vital Art

on Jan 30 in Slider by

Detroit Public Television takes an in-depth look at one teenager’s use of poetry to battle depression. The half-hour episode of Vital Signs features IO’s Dr. Suzanne Scarfone’s working as a mentor to Ranequa Kelley-Boyd. Vital Signs uses first person stories to humanize health struggles in Southeastern Michigan.
“Using the arts as a form of therapy is becoming more and more an established practice. I don’t care if you’re mad, you’re angry whatever. You can write it down, so you’ll have those things and then you can go back in retrospect and understand them.”

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