Do you find comfort in it? I do. I write when I am in high spirits as a way to try and share it, and also when I'm sad or angry, trying to let off steam.
i do. but not all the time. i have so much going on in my life its hard to find time. i do watch two of my absolute fave movies that make me happy. the yellow submarine and my neighbor totoro. i just learned in my virginia woolf class today though that she wrote a book of writings to comfort with her illness. its called "Night and Day" i am going to buy it.
I'm most likely to write a poem when I'm down. That's the most therapeutic for me. But mostly... no, I don't write when down. Sometimes I'll watch a movie or read a book or listen to music. Or sometimes I won't do any of those things.
i'm not sure it's comfort i just write coz i need to coz it's bursting outa dn i know no other way to express the feelings and emotions forming into lines inside my head... what do ya write, myself?
After my son was born i had very bad post natal depression...the writing helped a lot then...... .....but now I sing....that really helps heal the blues
Absolutely Writing is the best fucking therapy there could ever be. I spend an hour or two a day just getting out my random thoughts, observations, joys and complaints... it just really helps to get that stuff out of there in a formal way
i write. but i usually write rather bizarre things i'm thinking when i'm feeling... not so good... example taken from something i posted about 10 minutes ago: I'm so sorry if this is really long!!!! "Looking at the grim faces of the newscasters... looking at the darkness, the wind blowing, the cold... i have a hard time believing that we aren't living at the end of the world. Is existence, in its essence, really just a quest to find a partner? One who understands? We must often get off track, looking at some other things people have settled with, have settled into. Or is it all power? The quest to have all knowing power and control... To be God? Or are they both, understanding and power, one in the same? To obey, you must understand to some degree what you are doing. Is power just another misguided offshoot of understanding? Do the power hungry think they can achieve ultimate understanding by controlling? It makes sense. To me, at least."
I do it all the time I write letters and thoughts and feelings mostly. They I read it and then burn it. I find the burning helps me let go of the bad things (that is what I write most about).
Self-therapy is the only reason I write. Reading and writing unveiled the complexities of myself and life but they also seem to be the only things that help me understand it.
