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Originally Posted by blueoval
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Even though I sometimes have to push myself, I can say for certain writing is very helpful for me.
Many years ago, I gave myself the new-years challenge of writing a diary for a whole year, which entailed a notebook and one entry every day. The idea being that it was a way of venting my day onto paper before getting into bed. Sometimes it would be a sentence or paragraph for the day, sometimes it would be pages. For the most part, it was about describing my day, good or bad, getting it out of my head and letting it rest somewhere else. And yes, indeed keep this up for a whole year. I still have those notebooks, but I dare not read them back. I probably should set them on fire and be done with it. But the point was never to read them back, rather a strategy of decompressing each day.
Writing about my interests is extremely helpful too. I probably have more pressing things to do than typing a 3000-word review on a tyre dressing or lawn mower, but it keeps my mind active and focused on something other than chronic pain, diabetes, work, family troubles or whatever else is eating at me. And if someone finds those words valuable or interesting, then that's good too.