People like to say that writing your feelings is very cathartic and releases a lot of tension. I myself believe that catharsis doesn’t work for everybody, because it certainly does bad to me.
If I write about something I’m angry about, personally, the anger becomes all the more real to me because it had been put into words. If I never put it into words, there’s always the chance the emotion will change in nature, usually for the better.
Examples are always good. Say I was upset because a friend likes to treat me like an emotional scapegoat whenever they have something bugging them. If I write about that, that anger becomes much more accessible to my psyche, and instead of successfully keeping the emotional distance necessary to be able to stop having a reason to be upset, my mind/heart would gladly default to the easier thought process of being just plain old angry. And that sucks.
OK fine, this entry was kind of cathartic for me. Shut up.
