just keep it all bottled up inside yourself
Putting your thoughts down on paper, in the form of a diary, could be bad
for your health. Or, so some Brits say:
href="http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996374">Dear diary,
you make me sick.
I wonder what blogging does to your health, beside contribute to
repetitive-stress injury. And cause a diharea of obnoxious ads in comment
postings...
Comments
This reminds me of a study that showed that people who recovered best from
imprisonment in places like Auschwitz during the Holocaust were those who
could not remember their dreams when they were tested on dream recovery
decades later. Best to let go and move on after trauma?
Posted by: vsb | September 12, 2004 11:09 PM
I don't think that writing in a journal or diary concerns traumatic events
all that often. I think people who do it just want to keep a record or
write about their feelings, about everyday events and thoughts. Although,
I don't know what kind of journaling the study looked at...
Posted by: jonathan | September 13, 2004 12:09 PM