Art has always been one of my escapes.
I just don't get the time to do it for that reason now.
Using it to express dysphoria is cathartic for sure. Maybe not as much as we would like but I think it helps. Putting the pain into a drawing or painting or something can feel like you drained it from your system for a while. And you can do whatever you want with the result, keep it, destroy it, etc.