Writing can be a form of therapy...

I do my own writing.  I write from the heart.  I write whatever is on my mind at that particular moment.  It isn’t often that I have to go and do a lot of research about any one area or topic that I am writing about.  The simple answer is that I just have too much of my own personal experience.  I have never once worried about whether or not I was ‘stealing’ from someone else.  In fact, that is the one thing that I pride myself on the most, the fact that I don’t steal any content from anywhere on the web.  I only write from my own personal views and personal experiences. 

The biggest thing that I pride myself on is my ability to come up with new and original content all the time.  For every single post that you are reading, I have done this on my own.  I have no help from the internet.  I have no help, nor do I want help from previous articles or write-ups that might be similar to the subject that I am writing about.  I CHOOSE to write this way.  And, not once has any of my writings come back to me or been ‘flagged’ by someone else or have I been accused of Plagiarizing someone else’s writings. 

Although, sadly, I have begun to see my own writings being put out on the web as “Original Content” that has clearly been written, or should I say, COPIED by someone else and that person wants to call it their own.  Well, there are several recourses that I have available to me.  The biggest one, of course, is the WEB!!!  The web offers me many, many different ways to ‘claim’ my writings as my own.  And, I make sure to use those options.  That is why I have several blogger sites, in addition to my Wordpress sites.  I take my writing very seriously.  So, I don’t want to see any of my articles or writings anywhere else on the web.

I am amazed every single day that I rarely lack for anything to write about.  I am truly blessed.  I have an amazing life; although, because of some medical and health related issues there are days that I simply cannot write anything at all.  That is when I usually take a few days ‘off’ so to speak.  Even with taking those days off, I am always thinking and my brain is constantly ‘running’.  I have a multitude of stories that are constantly running around in my head that need to be told.  Or, at least, I feel that they need to be told.  I also think that in some way, it is also a benefit to me to be able to write. 

Writing has enabled me to deal with some much more personal issues that I have never truly dealt with.  I just kept pushing them deeper and deeper into my soul.  It was as if I was trying to just push all that hurt, anger, shame and pain out of my body.  Unfortunately, it hasn’t worked real well.  But, then along comes my blog and my ‘writings’ as I call them.  Who knew that this could be so beneficial for someone like me?  I never realized how cathartic this could truly be for me. 

 
You see, with writing, especially in this way, I have no judges, no ‘preachers’, no one telling me, “I told you so”, or, “I told you not to do that”, or any of those negative things that just tend to bring someone right back down to the rock-bottom place that they were trying to get out of to begin with.  Of course, there is always therapy….but, really, who wants to sit in a chair (an uncomfortable one at that) and constantly be asked that really, most irritating question….”Now, how does that make you feel?”  Doesn’t that just drive you mad?  The whole point of a person going to therapy is to find out what is going on.  You already know how you FEEL for crying out loud!  You don’t need a therapist to ask you that question over and over again.  After all, you came to THERAPY to find out why you feel the way that you do!!!