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[wickedflea]

What's been your experience with writing about very painful events from your past? What about extreme anger toward another person? Does it help you to get it out on paper (or on computer, whatever), even if you never do anything but file it away or tear it up? Or does it more often just get you upset without resolving anything?

This has nothing to do with me right now--just something I'm curious about.

Comments

[miladyelizabeth.livejournal.com]

Two things always help me deal - talking and writing. Somehow just venting it all - even if the writing is thrown out or the talking is just to my cats - somehow that process always helps.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's usually the case with me. But I think sometimes I try to psyche myself out of getting into it by telling myself it's going to be too uncomfortable, ya know?

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

If there's something that's eating away at me, I definitely feel better after writing about it. Of course, I probably wouldn't want to look at it ever again...

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Right, I never want to see that stuff again either. Every once in a while I'll run across something I've written and think, "Good NIGHT, I was pissed! Ouch!!!"

[sarcasmosis.livejournal.com]

look who you're asking.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

heh--good point!

[mipplet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it tends to get me more upset, unless I post it on LJ and everyone sympathizes with me!

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yeah, never hurts to have fifty people backing you up as you rail against the harpie bitches of the world. ;)

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

I have another LJ for that, nobody knows about it and I have no friends there. I raise holy cain sometimes, then go back and delete the post when I feel better; I usually don't need to read it again, and sometimes my vitriol makes my own hair stand up. But it's the getting it out that is important.

Before I used one of the millions of user codes I have for that, I just made private posts on this journal, and did the same thing with them; left them until I was 'defused' and then deleted them.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, that's a good way of doing it. That way you don't have to see them when you look back at your regular journal! It usually makes me cringe when I see that stuff later on.

[nonamejane.livejournal.com]

I have a real weird relationship with writing. If I think that later in life I will have to own up to the responsibility of writing it, I will never write it. I try not to write anything of major signifance down, for fear of someone else reading it. I think I am much more of a talker anyway. If I have an issue, I try to always confront it and clear the air. That seems to work at "getting the weight off of my shoulders".

[electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com]

Is that a penis monster in your icon? The one with the purple triangular head?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Haha, penis monster! Yes, yes it is. :P

[electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com]

He has tusks for balls.