Psychology 101

"Writing about personal traumas in a diary [blog] can also help. When volunteers in other experiments did this, they had fewer health problems during the ensuing four to six months (Pennebaker, 1990). As one subject explained, 'Although I have not talked with anyone about what I wrote, I was finally able to deal with it, work through the pain instead of trying to block it out.'"

- Myers, G. (2004). Psychology: Seventh Edition. New York: Worth.