I read an interesting article about benefits of keeping a journal in a stressful modern life. It's called "expressive writing". It's highly recommended by many counselors for two reasons:
1) It can help boost physical and mental health and improve memory.
2) It can lead to a new way of viewing a problem.
Experts caution, though, against viewing journal keeping as a quick fix to a bad problem. According to an article entitled "Expressive writing for mental health" first published in July, 2011, and cited on Harvard Health Publishing, some people felt worse after writing about their traumatic experiences than before. The writer of the article advises us to wait at least one or two months after your traumatic events before writing about them.
I found the second article extremely useful, because prior to reading it, I had thought expressive writing was effective without exception. But the truth of the matter is that it isn't.
From now on, when I have some bad experience, I will write about it a couple of months after its occurrence.
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