Surviving abuse

After experiencing repeated verbal and physical abuse, Ae* exhibited the symptoms of accumulated trauma — so much so that some parts of his body turned numb. Multiple visits to psychiatrists, psychologists and physical therapists didn’t help much.

Yet after he went through art therapy conducted by Prachayaporn Vorananta at Studio Persona, he started to feel tickling sensations under his skin.

“The therapy encouraged him to have movement. He crawled and stretched out his arms as much as he could in order to regain his sense of control. His traumatic experience may have caused him to feel that he was no longer the owner of his body, so the therapy helped him by forcing him to take back control…