Lately there has been quite a bit of news about how blogging can be therapeutic and I have been reading along. I have been blogging for over two years, and I had never stopped to think about how it might be therapeutic up until I started seeing articles pop up on Digg, Slashdot, and the news.
Even then I started this Blog with no thought as to the therapeutic opportunities it could offer me. It wasn’t until a few days ago that I started to realize the changes I had made without noticing them. Prior to starting this blog, I would troll the social networks, waiting for people to add me to their friends lists, and never adding them myself. I would start to write comments and then chicken out and cancel them before posting them. It was pretty bad.
Now things are different. I regularly add new people on the social networks I belong to. I even message people and strike up conversation occasionally. When it comes to commenting, I now find myself easily posting positive responses, and occasionally having to pry my hands from my keyboard to avoid posting negative responses. I’ve taken some time to consider how much of this change can be attributed to blogging itself.
I have come to the conclusion that in conjunction with the various techniques blogging has contributed quite a bit to my accomplishments for a number of reasons. First of all, it has given me a reason to reach out and contact others. When you combined with my understanding of my irrational fears, I could suddenly overcome the fears to do whatever I had to do. Secondly, whenever I write an article I learn a slew of things that I didn’t notice before. I’ll sit for hours writing and re-writing as I discover more about how the different techniques work for me. Of course while I’m doing that, I come up with hundreds of ideas about how the techniques could possibly be improved, and come up with other related techniques to experiment with in the future.
I really do believe that blogging is therapeutic, especially when you blog about your problems. Whether you meet new people with the same problems, or learn more about your problems it is all beneficial in the end.
Related Articles:
Blogging: Group Therapy of the 21st Century – ABC News
Blogging now Considered a Therapeutic Tool – Yahoo Tech
Blogging as Therapy – The Obvious
Blogging seen as Good Therapy – Dr. Deb
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