Writing's Cathartic Effects

So it's true! We need to express our emotions in order to maintain our sanity, and our physical health. A recent study revealed the beneficial effects of writing. Researchers led by Elizabeth Broadbent of the University of Auckland, New Zealand studied healthy seniors aged 64 to 97 and discovered that those who had written about the trauma's they had experienced had faster wound healing times than those who did not.

This goes to show that writing fulfills our pscho-social need to interact, or at least express our emotional states in all kinds of modes, writing being one. The point here is that those who are able to express their feelings, emotions and experiences, either through talking with close friends and family or through various forms of media such as writing are able to physically maintain a better over-all health and sense of well-being.

Personally, writing for me is a catharsis of unimaginable bliss. Through words and in words, one can express the complexities of human thoughts, relations and life.  It is a delving deeper into ourselves as thinking beings. Writing can be a healing process in and of itself as it is a means we can actually communicate with what Freud would call, our subconscious self.

Writing is bliss. It is man's way of communicating with the world, with others and with the reality of existence itself. The invention of the written language I believe is one of man's greatest, if not the greatest inventions, aside of course from language itself, as it enabled us to collectively share humanity's experience through time, ensuring that the future brings with it the story of man's past.