The Role of Body Work in Schizophrenia

The most messed up traumatized people I know tend to get lots of tattoos, dye their hair, do drugs and massively over-psychologize everything they do. Which of these are coping strategies and which are risk factors? A lot hinges on the answer. All of these people also do body work. Is this a coping strategy, a risk factor, an innocent diversion? I don't know, but overall it's left me feeling grateful that whatever skills, in quotes, predisposed one to body work seem to have passed me by.