Posted by StrawberriesYum on October 30, 2005, at 18:18:33
In reply to Cyber-Catharsis, posted by Dr. Bob on October 13, 2005, at 8:31:04
I actually started a blog in August, about 6-8 weeks into therapy (after 20 years of wondering wtheck was wrong with me lol). I think it serves as a medium to feel heard, because apparently that's one of my core issues. I broke down completely in therapy for the first time over it, in the weeks before I discovered blogging.
And then would get desperate every week for some kind of contact with somebody, and cycle really badly.
Once I discovered blogging, that diminished, although I'm not entirely sure it's healthy. I suppose it depends on the reasons for doing it, and the purpose of the blog, and the "audience" I have in mind as I write. Those are some of the concerns my ologist has brought up.
I became obsessed with it, for the first 6 weeks, but now have settled into a more casual, relaxed mode with it, and feel like it's more healthy, at least more healthy than it was.
Except for the few times I've stepped over the line with what I've posted . . . very impulsively and desperately. I'm actually NOT talking about any posts referring to suicide; those were posted in a more thoughtful state of mind. I'm more talking about impulsive emotional vomiting, as it were, all over my relatives.
I've had to institute a rule, that if I type something that extreme, that directed against anyone, that I need to walk away for 30 mins to an hour, and come back and review before posting. And if I don't do that, and emotionally upchuck again, I'll have to suspend the blog for awhile.
These are things I've explained to the ologist, and he's accepted them, but I think he is still wary of my purposes, conscious or unconscious, and the effects of it and such. Rightly so, I suppose.
Anyway, sorry to go into so much detail, but from a purely intellectual analysis of how appropriate or not, how healthy or not, and to what degree, and to what effect, blogging by the mentally ill can be, I actually think would be interesting to see the results of a study on the subject.
*crawls back under her rock, cause I talked too much as usual*
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