Sunday, January 30, 2011
Interesting link about writing out anxiety
This post I found thanks to Elizabeth S. Craig talks about the value of writing about anxious feelings in order to help ourselves process them... like writing about test anxiety before the test occurs. Could it help us to lower the bad effects of anxiety? Interesting stuff.
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Jaleh, I don't like getting angry either. I'm sorry about your bad experience. I'm glad you feel that it ended for the better.
ReplyDeleteLooking back on it now, I'm a little sad because the group used to be fun. But stuff like that happens. And I don't regret having written out my feelings on the subject. It wasn't quite as tactful as it could have been even after a few hours of work, but I did try, and it was something that needed to be said. I probably would have felt worse in the long run if I had kept silent.
ReplyDeleteIt does work. I can't begin to count how many blog entries I wrote, then later deleted because I thought maybe I shouldn't actually say some of it in public, but still retained the calmer state of having "talked" to someone, even though I hadn't, actually.
ReplyDeleteHappened a few times with blog drafts too, once I never posted.
I wonder what it is about people feeling "heard" (whether they actually were or not) that makes life seem brighter.
I've found that myself, dmdomini. I don't pretend to have any blinding insight into human nature, but I think we are fundamentally social creatures.
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