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    Is blogging therapeutic?

    Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 03:38 PM CST [General]

    Why do people write confessional blogs? Is it a creative outlet? A forum to vent? An excercise in exhibitionism? Perhapps all of the above but to mental health professionals a blog is medicine.

    Thats right Gabsters you heard it here... MEDICINE.

    Psychiatrists are starting to tout the therapeutic power of blogging and are encouraging patients to BLOG some have gone so far as to suggest that bloggers are happier than non-bloggers. Blogging fills the primal need for sympathy thereby making it therapeutic.

    So Gabsters... BLOG away....

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    I fully concur.. I have known this since I started writing blogs on this site. What's more.. all you have to do is read one of Undapantz's blogs to regonize the cry for help.

    Samira2
    June 25, 2008
    05:06 PM CST

    Yes, I fully agree. With both the above and Samira's comments.

    Capn_Undapantz
    June 25, 2008
    05:20 PM CST

    I think a place to vent to relative strangers is incredibly cathartic.

    It's also fun to actually put a face to a name and meet said relative strangers who become not-so-strange (or STRANG-ER) and possible friends....or people we need to be worried about.

    We're all taking turns rocking the Cap'n. Poor gentle soul.

    Marsha
    June 25, 2008
    05:27 PM CST

    Pure asinine drivel works for me!

    (it works even better for Cap'n)

    beckyanna
    June 25, 2008
    09:52 PM CST

    Yes! Catharsis FTW! I was EXTREMELY nervous about posting my social anxiety vlog but I'm feeling so much better about it. It's way better than the medication ever made me feel.

    PikaPikaChick
    June 26, 2008
    09:10 AM CST

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