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* Brian Topp in ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' discovers he can ''only'' paint when he's angst-ridden; after finally finding happiness when he starts dating Twist, his inspiration dries up. Luckily, Marsha spots his predicament and [[CruelToBeKind deliberately taunts him]] about his artistic block, making him just upset enough to start painting again.
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CaptivityHarmonica is a situation- and mechanism-specific subtrope. Compare CopeByPretending, where the character instead copes by pretending their stress is not as big as it is, and HeartbreakAndIceCream, a.k.a. "Cope By Eating". Contrast PercussiveTherapy, a.k.a "Cope by Smashing". A SadClown is a character who copes by cracking jokes. See also TrueArtIsAngsty. The inverse of this is TooUpsetToCreate, which can cause things like WritersBlock can be an inverse when a writer's ''inability'' character's emotions leave them ''unable'' to create is caused by stress or trauma.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E22MadeOfHonor Made of Honor]]", Steven explains to Bismuth the revelation that [[spoiler: her leader Rose Quartz was also their supposed worst enemy Pink Diamond, that she had faked her shattering the rest of the Crystal Gems were corrupted as a result]] and that he had unbubbled her without telling the others. When Steven tries making her reappearance a surprise to the others, Bismuth wanders off and drowns her sorrows by working in her forge, making weapons for an army that will never use them because they have either died or were driven mad with corruption presumably because of an idea ''she'' had given to Rose.
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* ''LightNovel/OutbreakCompany'': A while after the werewolf Elbia joins the protagonists as their group artist, she starts hiding away in her room, drawing non-stop while avoiding food, sleep and baths. Shinichi confronts Elbia over this, fearful that he's turned her into a {{Hikikomori}}. Instead she explains that short-term obsessive episodes are considered perfectly normal for werewolves, who had to find more socially acceptable ways of channeling their hunting instincts after they were integrated into human society. The AnimatedAdaptation, however, isn't an example -- Elbia is shown losing sleep, but [[AdaptationalContextChange it's treated at face value]] as Shinichi getting her addicted to Japanese art (in general, the adaptation drops a lot of the novels' racism themes [[PragmaticAdaptation in order to focus more on its allegories for the British opium trade]]).
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* ''LightNovel/OutbreakCompany'': A while after the werewolf Elbia joins the protagonists as their group artist, she starts hiding away in her room, drawing non-stop while avoiding food, sleep sleep, and baths. Shinichi confronts Elbia over this, fearful that he's turned her into a {{Hikikomori}}. Instead Instead, she explains that short-term obsessive episodes are considered perfectly normal for werewolves, who had to find more socially acceptable ways of channeling their hunting instincts after they were integrated into human society. The AnimatedAdaptation, however, isn't an example -- Elbia is shown losing sleep, but [[AdaptationalContextChange it's treated at face value]] as Shinichi getting her addicted to Japanese art (in general, the adaptation drops a lot of the novels' racism themes [[PragmaticAdaptation in order to focus more on its allegories for the British opium trade]]).
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* ''Film/{{Marwencol}}'' and its derivative ''Film/WelcomeToMarwen'' are based on this trope. After a severe beating left him brain damaged and unable to draw, artist Mark Hogancamp created a miniature town populated by dolls, which he manipulated and photographed to deal with his trauma.
* ''Film/{{Marwencol}}'' and its derivative ''Film/WelcomeToMarwen'' are based on this trope. After a severe beating left him brain damaged and unable to draw, artist Mark Hogancamp created a miniature town populated by dolls, which he manipulated and photographed to deal with his trauma.
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* Detective Callahan from ''Film/SuddenImpact'' investigates a brutal murder in a small seaside town outside San Francisco. One suspect is a rape victim that moved back to town recently. Callahan visits Jennifer in her studio, studio and sees the grim and ghoulish canvases that she has painted. Jennifer becomes his prime suspect upon viewing these works.
* ''Film/{{Marwencol}}'' and its derivative ''Film/WelcomeToMarwen'' are based on this trope. After a severe beating left himbrain damaged brain-damaged and unable to draw, artist Mark Hogancamp created a miniature town populated by dolls, which he manipulated and photographed to deal with his trauma.
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* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' novel ''A Stitch in Time'', Garak is living in a gardener's shed in the ruined remains of Cardassia. Unlike most people people, he has no intention of rebuilding his house, house but instead turns it into a memorial to his mother who was killed shortly before the war ended when her body was trapped under the rubble. He stacks the debris in ways that appeal to his current emotional state. It doesn't take long for others to notice and start coming by to see it as well, for the construction has artistic and emotional meaning for them as well.
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* [[https://eatingdisorder.org/blog/2018/04/knitting-together-skills-for-eating-disorder-recovery/ The Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt]] in Maryland encourages their patients to take up knitting as part of their recovery.
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* After a horrible bus accident when she was eighteen made Frida Kahlo wheelchair-bound and worsened her chronic pain, her parents encouraged her to paint as a way to kill time during her recovery and cope with her new disabilities.
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* Invoked for BlackComedy in [[https://local.theonion.com/abusive-father-cant-wait-to-see-the-art-hes-inspiring-h-1819573241 this article]] from Website/TheOnion: "[[AbusiveParents Abusive Father]] Can't Wait to See the Art He's Inspiring His Kids to Create".
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* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' has an example in Gloria. She copes with sadness and extreme stress by painting and is happy to explain how she felt when she painted each work as well as what she was coping with at the time. Unfortunately, she's a ButtMonkey and nobody sees any beauty in her paintings until Cricket adds crude drawings of common objects to the canvases. The very fact that her paintings got no attention without the help of a small annoying child does not escape her notice.
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* ''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale'': Offred, the story's narrator, mentions that Wives are not very satisfied with the grim realities of women's life in Gilead either, even though they are the top class women who have servants and their husbands are in power. About the only creative things they can do is gardening or [[TextileWorkIsFeminine knitting]] scarves for soldiers who fight at the fronts.
-->''"Many of the Wives have such gardens, it's something for them to order and maintain and care for."''
-->''"Many of the Wives have such gardens, it's something for them to order and maintain and care for."''
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CaptivityHarmonica is a situation- and mechanism-specific subtrope. Compare CopeByPretending, where the character instead copes by pretending their stress is not as big as it is, and HeartbreakAndIceCream, a.k.a. "Cope By Eating". A SadClown is a character who copes by cracking jokes. See also TrueArtIsAngsty. WritersBlock can be an inverse when a writer's ''inability'' to create is caused by stress or trauma.
Contrast PercussiveTherapy, a.k.a Cope by Smashing.
Contrast PercussiveTherapy, a.k.a Cope by Smashing.
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CaptivityHarmonica is a situation- and mechanism-specific subtrope. Compare CopeByPretending, where the character instead copes by pretending their stress is not as big as it is, and HeartbreakAndIceCream, a.k.a. "Cope By Eating". Contrast PercussiveTherapy, a.k.a "Cope by Smashing". A SadClown is a character who copes by cracking jokes. See also TrueArtIsAngsty. WritersBlock can be an inverse when a writer's ''inability'' to create is caused by stress or trauma.
Contrast PercussiveTherapy, a.k.a Cope by Smashing.
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* In the 2019 adaptation of ''Manga/{{Dororo}}'' [[CoolBigSis Mio]] sings so that she doesn't feel sadness [[spoiler: even when she's selling her body.]]
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* Invoked for BlackComedy in [[https://local.theonion.com/abusive-father-cant-wait-to-see-the-art-hes-inspiring-h-1819573241 this article]] from Website/TheOnion: "[[AbusiveParents Abusive Father]] Can't Wait to See the Art He's Inspiring His Kids to Create"Create".
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* Invoked for BlackComedy in [[https://local.theonion.com/abusive-father-cant-wait-to-see-the-art-hes-inspiring-h-1819573241 this article]] from Website/TheOnion.Website/TheOnion: "[[AbusiveParents Abusive Father]] Can't Wait to See the Art He's Inspiring His Kids to Create"
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* ''Manga/KOn High School'': Sumire realizes that playing drums relieves her from stress, which motivates her to join the light music club.
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* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': When Navani believes that her brother-in-law has been betrayed and killed in battle, she dissociates slightly and paints a huge prayer-glyph on the ground. After her mind clears, she realizes it's the symbol for "Justice".
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* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'': The Nosferatu {{Vampire Variety|Pack}} are twisted into TheGrotesque and are usually stuck living in underground enclaves at the fringes of undead society. They're also a rare exception to vampires' CreativeSterility, channeling their alienation into eerie sculptures, haunting songs that use the acoustics of subway tunnels, or bizarre fungus gardens.
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* ''{{Marwencol}} and its derivative ''WelcomeToMarwen'' are based on this trope. After a severe beating left him brain damaged and unable to draw, artist Mark Hogancamp created a miniature town populated by dolls, which he manipulated and photographed to deal with his trauma.
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* ''{{Marwencol}} ''Film/{{Marwencol}}'' and its derivative ''WelcomeToMarwen'' ''Film/WelcomeToMarwen'' are based on this trope. After a severe beating left him brain damaged and unable to draw, artist Mark Hogancamp created a miniature town populated by dolls, which he manipulated and photographed to deal with his trauma.
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->'''Lisa:''' If you're feeling depressed, do what I do and write something. A novel, a play...
->'''Bart:''' Or I could write something that's ''not'' gay.
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->'''Bart:''' Or I could write something that's ''not'' gay.
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CaptivityHarmonica is a situation- and mechanism-specific subtrope. Compare CopeByPretending, where the character instead copes by pretending their stress is not as big as it is, and HeartbreakAndIceCream, a.k.a. "Cope By Eating". A ''SadClown'' is a character who copes by cracking jokes. See also TrueArtIsAngsty. WritersBlock can be an inverse when a writer's ''inability'' to create is caused by stress or trauma.
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CaptivityHarmonica is a situation- and mechanism-specific subtrope. Compare CopeByPretending, where the character instead copes by pretending their stress is not as big as it is, and HeartbreakAndIceCream, a.k.a. "Cope By Eating". A ''SadClown'' SadClown is a character who copes by cracking jokes. See also TrueArtIsAngsty. WritersBlock can be an inverse when a writer's ''inability'' to create is caused by stress or trauma.
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CaptivityHarmonica is a situation- and mechanism-specific subtrope. Compare CopeByPretending, where the character instead copes by pretending their stress is not as big as it is, and HeartbreakAndIceCream, a.k.a. "Cope By Eating". A ''SadClown'' is a character who copes by cracking jokes. See also TrueArtIsAngsty. WritersBlock can be an inverse when a writer's ''inability'' to create is caused by stress or trauma.
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When a character uses art (such as painting, dancing, singing, crafting trinkets, etc.) as a coping mechanism to deal with extreme stress, such as trauma, loss, or isolation. This trope is a TruthInTelevision, as studies have shown that any kind of fiber art (knitting, crocheting, sewing, etc.) can reduce anxiety and depression. It is known as a form of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology) sublimation]] in formal psychology.
CaptivityHarmonica is a situation- and mechanism-specific subtrope. Compare CopeByPretending, where the character instead copes by pretending their stress is not as big as it is, and HeartbreakAndIceCream, a.k.a. "Cope By Eating". See also TrueArtIsAngsty. WritersBlock can be an inverse when a writer's ''inability'' to create is caused by stress or trauma.
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* ''LightNovel/OutbreakCompany'': A while after the werewolf Elbia joins the protagonists as their group artist, she starts hiding away in her room, drawing non-stop while avoiding food, sleep and baths. Shinichi confronts Elbia over this, fearful that he's turned her into a {{Hikikomori}}. Instead she explains that short-term obsessive episodes are considered perfectly normal for werewolves, who had to find more socially acceptable ways of channeling their hunting instincts after they were integrated into human society. The AnimatedAdaptation, however, isn't an example -- Elbia is shown losing sleep, but [[AdaptationalContextChange it's treated at face value]] as Shinichi getting her addicted to Japanese art (in general, the adaptation drops a lot of the novels' racism themes [[PragmaticAdaptation in order to focus more on its allegories for the British opium trade]]).
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* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': After the RealityWarper Dr. Manhattan flees to Mars in the [[spoiler:mistaken]] belief that he [[spoiler:accidentally caused cancer to develop in people close to him, including his ex-girlfriend]], he calms himself by creating a huge, intricate glass palace out of the sand.
* Subverted in ''ComicBook/VForVendetta''. Delia Surridge thought that the Man In Room Five's fooling around with fertilizer and grease solvent was just him trying to cope with the trauma of his experiments through art. In reality, he was using the various chemicals to create napalm and mustard gas for his eventual escape.
* In ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', Dorothy Spinner uses her psychic abilities to create lots of imaginary friends as a way of coping with her profound loneliness.
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* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}:'' After Elsa escapes Arendelle, she creates a beautiful ice palace both to test her ElementalPowers and to release her pent-up emotions. She is singing "Let It Go" as it forms around her.
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* ''Film/ThisHouseHasPeopleInIt'': The Sculptor, creator of the in-universe show "The Sculptor's Clayground", keeps referencing his messy breakup with his ex and his time in prison, where he apparently learned to work with clay to get his emotions out. He's not very good at it, however, and it may or may not have given him "Lynks Disease".
* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'':
** Andy copes with the monotonous reality of his imprisonment by carving little stone figurines. [[spoiler:There is more to it than his fascination with art. He purposefully [[InvokedTrope invokes the trope]] to avoid suspicion while secretly using the carving hammer to dig out a tunnel and escape.]]
** Subverted when Andy gives his friend Red a [[CaptivityHarmonica harmonica]] as a present hoping it will cheer him up. It reminds Red of the free days too much to serve as solace, so he avoids playing it.
* Detective Callahan from ''Film/SuddenImpact'' investigates a brutal murder in a small seaside town outside San Francisco. One suspect is a rape victim that moved back to town recently. Callahan visits Jennifer in her studio, and sees the grim and ghoulish canvases that she has painted. Jennifer becomes his prime suspect upon viewing these works.
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* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Hard Time", O'Brien is sent to prison and, in order to cope with forced isolation, taught by his cellmate how to make "eseekas", geometric patterns formed by tracing his finger in the sand covering the cell floor.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor Vincent and the Doctor]]": {{Discussed|Trope}} by an museum curator regarding the art of Creator/VincentVanGogh. Going by van Gogh's [[ManlyTears reaction]], he hit the nail on the head.
-->'''Curator:''' He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world, no one had ever done it before.
* ''Series/{{Shoestring}}'': Eddie doodles caricatures of the people he's talking to to manage stress. When he's dragged into an abandoned train car in the pilot, he draws in the dust on the window.
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* The title heroine of ''Literature/ThaisOfAthens'' falls into a deep depression after [[spoiler:her BestFriend Aegesichore and her lover Menedem]] are both murdered in a single day. The only thing that keeps her afloat (until major changes in her life help her overcome it) is riding out into the wilderness and dancing for hours at a time.
* ''Discworld/TheLastContinent'': The god of evolution reacts to problems by making beetles as he says it relaxes him (the god being based on both UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin and the "God has an inordinate fondness for beetles" quote). Stibbons, who is ready to give up everything to live with the only scientific-minded god on the Disc runs like hell when it turns out the god's evolutionary masterpiece is a cockroach.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': Perrin Aybara, a former village [[TheBlacksmith blacksmith]] who's childhood friends with TheChosenOne, takes his mind off the world-shaking events he's been caught up in by spending time at work in the forge, even after becoming nobility. After the death of his friend [[spoiler:Hopper]], he starts smithing and inadvertently creates [[spoiler:the first Power-wrought weapon since the [[TheTimeOfMyths Age of Legends]]]].
* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' novel ''A Stitch in Time'', Garak is living in a gardener's shed in the ruined remains of Cardassia. Unlike most people he has no intention of rebuilding his house, but instead turns it into a memorial to his mother who was killed shortly before the war ended when her body was trapped under the rubble. He stacks the debris in ways that appeal to his current emotional state. It doesn't take long for others to notice and start coming by to see it as well, for the construction has artistic and emotional meaning for them as well.
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* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrT_0J6m6y8 Bird Set Free]]" by Music/{{Sia}} :
-->And I don't care if I sing off key,
I find myself in my melodies.
I sing for love, I sing for me,
I shout it out like a bird set free.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCChLqGffOY The Mystery of Your Gift]]" by Music/JoshGroban:
-->So sing higher and higher,
A thousand new voices ring through.
If you sing out of the fire,
The courage you need comes from you.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/TheOneRing'' has this as a game mechanic to heal the Shadow Points that {{Player Character}}s accumulate through misdeeds or traumatic events. The character spends a few months of downtime on a Craft or Song skill check, which represents them rebalancing themselves through creative work.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The title heroine of ''VideoGame/{{Gris}}'' copes with personal loss by singing. Notably, she cannot actually sing for most of the game (the "Sing" button is mapped, but only elicits weak gasps from Gris), only finding her voice again in the penultimate stage. At the climax, [[spoiler:singing finally helps her to overcome her depression]].
* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Bound}}'' is an adult woman who escapes into a fantasy world where she is a ballerina princess, in order to process her childhood trauma of [[spoiler:being abandoned by her father]] through dance. There is also some hints that her imaginative dancing routines and drawings are a way to cope with her inability to actually dance in real life due to pregnancy.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Catherine from ''Webcomic/FurryExperience'' is an introvert, and doodles frequently to cope with social pressures. Cat's class notes are littered with doodles. When Cat is assigned Courtney as a project partner, Cat draws Courtney with her cranial cap open and the brain flying out on silly little wings in the Tuesday 8 June 2010 strip. "I don't like her much," Cat admits to Ronnie.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' has an example in Gloria. She copes with sadness and extreme stress by painting and is happy to explain how she felt when she painted each work as well as what she was coping with at the time. Unfortunately, she's a ButtMonkey and nobody sees any beauty in her paintings until Cricket adds crude drawings of common objects to the canvases. The very fact that her paintings got no attention without the help of a small annoying child does not escape her notice.
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CaptivityHarmonica is a situation- and mechanism-specific subtrope. Compare CopeByPretending, where the character instead copes by pretending their stress is not as big as it is, and HeartbreakAndIceCream, a.k.a. "Cope By Eating". See also TrueArtIsAngsty. WritersBlock can be an inverse when a writer's ''inability'' to create is caused by stress or trauma.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''LightNovel/OutbreakCompany'': A while after the werewolf Elbia joins the protagonists as their group artist, she starts hiding away in her room, drawing non-stop while avoiding food, sleep and baths. Shinichi confronts Elbia over this, fearful that he's turned her into a {{Hikikomori}}. Instead she explains that short-term obsessive episodes are considered perfectly normal for werewolves, who had to find more socially acceptable ways of channeling their hunting instincts after they were integrated into human society. The AnimatedAdaptation, however, isn't an example -- Elbia is shown losing sleep, but [[AdaptationalContextChange it's treated at face value]] as Shinichi getting her addicted to Japanese art (in general, the adaptation drops a lot of the novels' racism themes [[PragmaticAdaptation in order to focus more on its allegories for the British opium trade]]).
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[[folder:Comic Book]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': After the RealityWarper Dr. Manhattan flees to Mars in the [[spoiler:mistaken]] belief that he [[spoiler:accidentally caused cancer to develop in people close to him, including his ex-girlfriend]], he calms himself by creating a huge, intricate glass palace out of the sand.
* Subverted in ''ComicBook/VForVendetta''. Delia Surridge thought that the Man In Room Five's fooling around with fertilizer and grease solvent was just him trying to cope with the trauma of his experiments through art. In reality, he was using the various chemicals to create napalm and mustard gas for his eventual escape.
* In ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', Dorothy Spinner uses her psychic abilities to create lots of imaginary friends as a way of coping with her profound loneliness.
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[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}:'' After Elsa escapes Arendelle, she creates a beautiful ice palace both to test her ElementalPowers and to release her pent-up emotions. She is singing "Let It Go" as it forms around her.
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/ThisHouseHasPeopleInIt'': The Sculptor, creator of the in-universe show "The Sculptor's Clayground", keeps referencing his messy breakup with his ex and his time in prison, where he apparently learned to work with clay to get his emotions out. He's not very good at it, however, and it may or may not have given him "Lynks Disease".
* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'':
** Andy copes with the monotonous reality of his imprisonment by carving little stone figurines. [[spoiler:There is more to it than his fascination with art. He purposefully [[InvokedTrope invokes the trope]] to avoid suspicion while secretly using the carving hammer to dig out a tunnel and escape.]]
** Subverted when Andy gives his friend Red a [[CaptivityHarmonica harmonica]] as a present hoping it will cheer him up. It reminds Red of the free days too much to serve as solace, so he avoids playing it.
* Detective Callahan from ''Film/SuddenImpact'' investigates a brutal murder in a small seaside town outside San Francisco. One suspect is a rape victim that moved back to town recently. Callahan visits Jennifer in her studio, and sees the grim and ghoulish canvases that she has painted. Jennifer becomes his prime suspect upon viewing these works.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Hard Time", O'Brien is sent to prison and, in order to cope with forced isolation, taught by his cellmate how to make "eseekas", geometric patterns formed by tracing his finger in the sand covering the cell floor.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor Vincent and the Doctor]]": {{Discussed|Trope}} by an museum curator regarding the art of Creator/VincentVanGogh. Going by van Gogh's [[ManlyTears reaction]], he hit the nail on the head.
-->'''Curator:''' He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world, no one had ever done it before.
* ''Series/{{Shoestring}}'': Eddie doodles caricatures of the people he's talking to to manage stress. When he's dragged into an abandoned train car in the pilot, he draws in the dust on the window.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* The title heroine of ''Literature/ThaisOfAthens'' falls into a deep depression after [[spoiler:her BestFriend Aegesichore and her lover Menedem]] are both murdered in a single day. The only thing that keeps her afloat (until major changes in her life help her overcome it) is riding out into the wilderness and dancing for hours at a time.
* ''Discworld/TheLastContinent'': The god of evolution reacts to problems by making beetles as he says it relaxes him (the god being based on both UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin and the "God has an inordinate fondness for beetles" quote). Stibbons, who is ready to give up everything to live with the only scientific-minded god on the Disc runs like hell when it turns out the god's evolutionary masterpiece is a cockroach.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': Perrin Aybara, a former village [[TheBlacksmith blacksmith]] who's childhood friends with TheChosenOne, takes his mind off the world-shaking events he's been caught up in by spending time at work in the forge, even after becoming nobility. After the death of his friend [[spoiler:Hopper]], he starts smithing and inadvertently creates [[spoiler:the first Power-wrought weapon since the [[TheTimeOfMyths Age of Legends]]]].
* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' novel ''A Stitch in Time'', Garak is living in a gardener's shed in the ruined remains of Cardassia. Unlike most people he has no intention of rebuilding his house, but instead turns it into a memorial to his mother who was killed shortly before the war ended when her body was trapped under the rubble. He stacks the debris in ways that appeal to his current emotional state. It doesn't take long for others to notice and start coming by to see it as well, for the construction has artistic and emotional meaning for them as well.
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[[folder:Music]]
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrT_0J6m6y8 Bird Set Free]]" by Music/{{Sia}} :
-->And I don't care if I sing off key,
I find myself in my melodies.
I sing for love, I sing for me,
I shout it out like a bird set free.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCChLqGffOY The Mystery of Your Gift]]" by Music/JoshGroban:
-->So sing higher and higher,
A thousand new voices ring through.
If you sing out of the fire,
The courage you need comes from you.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/TheOneRing'' has this as a game mechanic to heal the Shadow Points that {{Player Character}}s accumulate through misdeeds or traumatic events. The character spends a few months of downtime on a Craft or Song skill check, which represents them rebalancing themselves through creative work.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* The title heroine of ''VideoGame/{{Gris}}'' copes with personal loss by singing. Notably, she cannot actually sing for most of the game (the "Sing" button is mapped, but only elicits weak gasps from Gris), only finding her voice again in the penultimate stage. At the climax, [[spoiler:singing finally helps her to overcome her depression]].
* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Bound}}'' is an adult woman who escapes into a fantasy world where she is a ballerina princess, in order to process her childhood trauma of [[spoiler:being abandoned by her father]] through dance. There is also some hints that her imaginative dancing routines and drawings are a way to cope with her inability to actually dance in real life due to pregnancy.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Catherine from ''Webcomic/FurryExperience'' is an introvert, and doodles frequently to cope with social pressures. Cat's class notes are littered with doodles. When Cat is assigned Courtney as a project partner, Cat draws Courtney with her cranial cap open and the brain flying out on silly little wings in the Tuesday 8 June 2010 strip. "I don't like her much," Cat admits to Ronnie.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' has an example in Gloria. She copes with sadness and extreme stress by painting and is happy to explain how she felt when she painted each work as well as what she was coping with at the time. Unfortunately, she's a ButtMonkey and nobody sees any beauty in her paintings until Cricket adds crude drawings of common objects to the canvases. The very fact that her paintings got no attention without the help of a small annoying child does not escape her notice.
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