Keeping a diary is bad for your health, say UK psychologists. They found that regular diarists were more likely than non-diarists to suffer from headaches, sleeplessness, digestive problems and social awkwardness. Their finding challenges assumptions that people find it easier to get over a traumatic event if they write about it. (complete article)
Personally, – and I am definitely not the only one – I believe writing does help me to get over stuff, even though – or maybe because of – you really have to think things through and over in order to write readable
