Blogging Therapy
How Blogging Became My Therapy for Depression and Anxiety
Before I started this blog, I studied the people who write blogs on Bear Blog. I analyzed them and found that many of them, like me, suffer from depression and anxiety. I also realized that they use blogging as a kind of medicine for their problems. I do the same, and I have recommended it to people with similar struggles.
On Facebook, I am a member of several support groups related to depression, anxiety, hypochondria, and panic attacks. I often recommend to people that they start keeping an online diary, or more precisely, a blog.
I advise them to create a free blog, use it anonymously, and record their thoughts there, no matter what those thoughts are.
This has helped me because, while writing down these negative thoughts, you release a part of them. And once you write them and read them back, you can somehow see them in a different light. You can tell yourself that things are not as bad as your own mind makes them out to be.
The moment you begin to reflect on your negative thoughts, you gradually start to realize that these are not real thoughts, but rather unpleasant fantasies projected by your brain.
This will not happen in a day or two. It is a long process, but little by little, you start to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Last year, I managed to convince a very depressed woman to start writing down everything that was in her head. To pour it all into a blog and free herself from it. That is exactly what she did. She did not completely rid herself of depression, but she gained the strength to fight it. Now she is studying psychology because she wants to help herself and others struggling with the same problems.
People with struggles like mine know that you cannot completely heal, and that episodes of depression, anxiety, hypochondria, and panic attacks will return again and again. But when you understand what they are and how they work, you are better prepared to face them.
I know there are also people with similar problems who read Bear Blog, but they do not start their own blogs. To them, I recommend creating an anonymous blog and sharing their thoughts, so that they can feel relief and gradually improve their condition.