by Wayne Leon Learmond

Created on: June 28, 2010   Last Updated: June 29, 2010

When one is in a depressed state of mind writing can quite often be the cure.  To pour out all of your pent-up feelings of hurt within you, onto the page or screen, can quite often be a wonderful feeling of release. Of course, that is not to say that all of your problems will disappear instantly, but what it can do is get you to look at your problems with a sense of relativity.

In fact writing your problems down can help you to look at your troubles and take stock. It helps you take a step back, and look at all your problems with a sense of detachment.  Quite often, when one does this, the problems that one may have suddenly do not appear so problematic and big after all, when one reads back what has been written.

It puts a sense of perspective on the situation - whatever that situation may be.  Rash decisions that would have been made within the heat of the moment, are placed on the back-burner, as one thinks over what has been written.  Again, reading back, in the cold light of day, all of the worries and cares one has put down, may give you a sense of freedom.

Freedom from worry comes, when everything that has been written can suddenly pale into insignificance when looked at with fresh eyes. In this sense, writing is certainly a therapy to the well-being of the mind.  Writing down ones problems can often lead your mind into meeting all of your worries head-on.

Writing can give one the courage to be able to face whatever has been playing on the mind, and causing sleepless nights. It can help to overcome whatever perceived dangers [real or otherwise] one may face. It can produce courage - where there was none before. And it can also help you to reach decisions that you may not have thought about before.

All of those things the mere act of writing can cause. Sometimes, more than any therapist can do, writing down our problems - confessing all of our sins, so-to-speak, on paper, or the screen, is a release that can lead our lives onto other pathways, for the better. Many of us, when problems arise, often reach for a pen or paper, and during quiet moments convey to paper or screen all that may be worrying us. This is often called self-therapy and it has proven qualities of being able to work.

It is almost like self-hypnosis in which, on reading about all of our problems, it then puts us in the frame of mind to face those personal worries head on. As explained above, it gives us the courage to be able to face anything that life throws at us. The majority of us will always turn to the pen and paper [or screen], to put things into perspective. 

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