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Blogging Alone Isn't A Good Enough Therapy
It’s time to admit what I was missing.
A few months back, I wrote an article about why blogging could be the greatest therapy there is.
Indeed, there are clear upsides to using blogging as some sort of therapy treatment, such as learning to appreciate small things and developing self-awareness through reflection.
But it turns out it may not actually be enough a treatment on its own.
After more than a year of sharing online and becoming a better version of myself through sharing my thoughts and difficult episodes of my life, I find some major downsides to it too.
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Blogging allows you to reflect and learn more about yourself. It doesn’t really matter what you write about because, in the end, it all comes back to you thinking about a topic and developing ideas related to said topic.
Those ideas will, without fault, come from your own experiences and demonstrate who you are and how you see the world.
However, while during therapy with a professional someone is actively listening in order to help you, readers are here for themselves. Not you.
Only a small portion of readers will take the time to reply.
