London: The modern world is seen as an increasingly fast-paced and digital age, and can a seemingly trivial activity like writing a diary help with stress or not? Julia Samuels, a psychotherapist from England and author of ‘Grief Works’, answers in the affirmative.
According to media reports, Julia Samuel said in a British TV program that there is strong evidence that when we write what we feel into words, we are expressing our feelings in a similar way. In direct conversation.
In fact, writing a personal diary is as effective as any talk therapy, he added. It helps in controlling emotions, anxiety and stress. Not only that, it also improves our immune system, our mood and it often solves the problems that are affecting our thoughts.
Moreover, the euphoric feeling that diarists, who write knowing or hoping that their thoughts will be read by others, can have a positive effect on their mind.
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