wanderingsoul
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Writing as Therapy
Writing can be theraputic. Sometimes writing a story about "someone else" can help you work thorough things that are on your mind. It can help you relive situations in your life that you had no control over, or which ended badly--and enable you to take control over them, give them an ending that you can deal with. I think many writers do that sort of theraputic writing.
Sometimes a different type of writing works. This type of writing is not fiction. It is generally the telling--and reliving--of a memory. Sometimes as the writer is telling what happened, he/she is also analyzing his/her feelings and reactions. I find this type of writing to really help me. It is very personal, intimate and revealing. It is exposing, also. But by putting it all into words, by NOT disgusing the fact that it is a real memory (by not putting it into a fictional story), it helps acknowledge it to myself, helps me accept that it is part of me. It is essentially dealing with repressed memories. Not a comfortable form of writing. And while it is being written, it is often like being in the midst of that memory again. But I find that exposing such memories to the light of day helps lessen their lingering effects, helps place them where they belong.
So... this section of this site is devoted to that kind of writing. Come here to work out your issues with yourself. It's a bit like talking to a therapist, only a hell of a lot cheaper!
Comments from readers are welcomed in this thread--but spam and insensitivity are NOT permitted. Doesn't mean you have to walk on eggshells here or make all your replies like "Little Mary Sunshine" but remember that the writing here is very personal and exposing. If you flame, spam, treat someone with insensitivity, your post will be deleted and you will be warned.
I like to believe that all people who write have some measure of sensitivity. Don't disillusion me.
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And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered "I Myself amd Heav'n and Hell"
Omar Khayyam
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