2007-01-22 10:35:23 · 6 answers · asked by rainee 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
it's like talking through a bad experience, only in writing. It gets you thinking about it and what it means or meant to you, how it affected you and the like. In the end it will help you reflect on the experience and gain the ultimate knowledge from it, deal with it's pain, and move on.
2007-01-22 10:39:49 · answer #1 · answered by kb6jra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many times writing/talking about a traumatic experience will result in a weight lifting off our shoulders/chest, especially if it's something you've never shared with anyone before. This may be because you're relieving yourself of something you've been holding inside for so long or because you're releasing the guilt you've carried. A lot of times I hear that after writing about or telling a traumatic experience to someone, it allows a person to move on and stop thinking about it so much.
2007-01-22 18:52:30 · answer #2 · answered by Kelly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Writing about my bad experiences has helped me to get the poison of the experience out of my system. It has helped to get a mass of jumbled thoughts straight and rational. It has helped to share the incident and on a couple of occasions has helped others who had a similar experience to feel understood when they've read about mine. It has helped to feel emotions I was trying to hide from and get rid of them. But most of all, it helped to read about how I felt a year down the track and see how far I'd come, how much I'd improved, and what I'd learned in getting over it. It made me proud of myself to see that I'd got out of the hole all by myself.
2007-01-22 22:13:42 · answer #3 · answered by CheeseFest 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It allows you to process the experience. PTSD is simply a reprocessing of intense stimulation, so the sooner and more clearly the experiences can be processed, so much the better.
2007-01-22 18:45:27 · answer #4 · answered by Spock 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When analyzing the situation and writing about it you begin to understand what and why this happened to you and come to a realization that you have to deal it. It is then you can go forward.
2007-01-22 19:18:47 · answer #5 · answered by madisonian51 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You "release" it by getting it out of your system and putting it down on paper. You name it, so that it no longer has power over you, even though it will ALWAYS be a part of you.
2007-01-22 20:31:17 · answer #6 · answered by JOURNEY 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋