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I knew it!

Self-medication via blogging has become prominent enough that Scientific America has published a study focused on this topic.

"Self-medication may be the reason the blogosphere has taken off. Scientists (and writers) have long known about the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences, thoughts and feelings. But besides serving as a stress-coping mechanism, expressive writing produces many physiological benefits. Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces viral load in AIDS patients, and even speeds healing after surgery. A study in the February issue of the Oncologist reports that cancer patients who engaged in expressive writing just before treatment felt markedly better, mentally and physically, as compared with patients who did not."

This makes perfect sense to me. While I do not believe blogging can change your life if you are severely depressed or something of that nature, I do think it is therapeutic to write a journal and essentially that is what a blog can be. A blog can be an online log of your life, a "web log" which coined the word "blog".

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Labels: self medication, therapy, writing