Take Me To Post Comment Form Apart from writing being a potentially lucrative career, depending on your genre or industry of choice, did you know that writing is also therapeutic? Writing essays, for instance, is considered a healing art so that many psychiatrists commend essay writing, and counsellors recommend it.

What makes writing therapeutic?

Writing is a powerful tool even in the age of CD-ROMs, mobile phones, and cable TV it is a de-stressor. It settles the mind and releases tension when you able to express your deepest thoughts and inner fears; it becomes an outlet that helps you release negative thoughts.

Essay writing is also a mood changer capable of uplifting your mood when feel down. Writing essays is especially helpful for introverted individuals who do not feel comfortable sharing their feelings and thoughts to even their closes friends and family.

History proves writing therapeutic benefits

It has been said that the best literary materials ever produced are those written during an author of hardest times. True enough, writing is more than just about the written word it is an expression of oneself. Jawaharlal Nehru escaped loneliness by confiding to his daughter through writing while in prison. Anne Frank unwittingly gave the world a glimpse of history (from a first person point of view) by writing while in hiding in her secret annex.

Jose Rizal (Philippine National hero and poet) wrote what would become two of the best-written novels of all time, Noli Me Tangere(Touch Me Not and El Filibusterismo(The Filibusterer), which continue to earn him international acclaim.

How else does writing help?

Many other writers, including Hugh Prather, Franz Kafka, and even generals, rank-and-file soldiers, and ordinary people, like you, have had a journal or diary even once in their lives to account joyful, neutral, or painful memories. Hence, writing is for everybody.

There are many forms of writing just as there are various ways to express yourself. You can write UK essays, poems, journals, or articles and opt to publish them or not the choice is yours. Writing gives you only benefits, and it only needs a pen and paper or a digital word processor to get started, and some dose of inspiration, too.