How can writing about your emotional wounds heal the pain?
60When it comes to emotional pain of any kind, it is never healthy to keep your emotions bottled up inside. Venting your feelings, whether to a friend or through writing, is the best way to get perspective on your situation. Writing out your feelings in a journal or diary, or even through other means such as poetry or a story, is a great start if you're not ready to talk to someone. Write down what happened, why it happened (or why you think it happened), and how you feel about it. Then go back and read it. If it seems like an accurate account, put it aside and re-read it again after a few days or a few weeks. You may be surprised at how silly it seems, or how trivial it is compared to heartaches you have endured before. And once you get your thoughts together you will be able to talk it out with someone who can offer you advice and support. If the emotional pain you are feeling is the result of a death, it is very cathartic to write a tribute to the person you have lost. Write down things you remember about them, things you liked, things that annoyed you. Often the best way to do this is to write a letter to them as if they will read it wherever they are. Well that's my 2 cents...hope it helps!
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I agree. It's a lot more healthy and helpful to write out what the problem is and then look back on it later.
talking or writing about emotional pain feels to me like cleansing, like getting rid of poison or polution or somehting else that's very bad for the system. it also helps to formulate verbaly what the problem really is - becausse we then can stop dealing with the problem emotionally - and resolve it intellectually with the brain power, which gets blocked and paralysed by feelings.
commentonthis7 4 years ago
i do that sometimes and you do think they are silly and asking your self why did i do that for or how stupid that was