Internet blogs are fast becoming the easiest and most effective way of releasing professional anxiety.
It's the internet age people, you need no personal diaries anymore. All angst, professional frustrations, work pressures et al are finding their way into the New Age internet diary — the blog.
Blogs have developed into a strong platform where people are expressing their emotions, thoughts and opinions — in short everything that would help them destress. We find out how blogs are helping people to cope with their day to day tensions.
Ask software professional Vipul Tripathi whether blogging helps him cope with daily pressures and pat comes the reply, "For me, blogging is a therapeutic exercise, because it's a good outlet for my emotions, thoughts and opinions. I like to discuss things happening around me.
Being an introvert, I find blogging the easiest way of expressing my opinion, without really speaking in public. This also helps me interact with people who share similar opinions and can give me a feedback."
While blogger Vipul Tripathi finds blogging an apt medium of expression, engineering student and netizen Ridhi Kalra feels that "within the blogging community, you are not an island, but one who is capable of reaching out to people across the globe."
"Blogging provides an effective conduit to vent my emotions — whenever I'm sad or angry, and need to get it all out. And reading others' blogs can be therapeutic. Especially about people who manage to overcome hardships and calamities or are battling an illness. They're often inspirational. It makes me realise how fortunate I am and that itself is curative,"shares Ridhi.
And there are several others like her in the city for whom blogging proves to be a satisfactory exercise. Architect Vishal Bansal being a case in point.
Says Bansal, "I wanted to speak out, but without discussing things with anyone in particular, so I blogged, anonymously. I would never have been able to say those things to anyone face to face. For me, it was like talking to a therapist. My therapist was the blogosphere and the fellow bloggers who kept leaving posts with words of encouragement."
Speaking on the issue psychologist Dr Vijay Agarwal, says, "Blog therapy is becoming quite popular among professionals these days. Professional pressures are so high now that people want to express their feelings, frustations and anger before others. But it's the introvert in them that restricts them from doing the same. But blogs are proving to be quite helpful here. I feel that blog therapy is working and helps people cope with stress."
Source:Times of India
It's the internet age people, you need no personal diaries anymore. All angst, professional frustrations, work pressures et al are finding their way into the New Age internet diary — the blog.
Blogs have developed into a strong platform where people are expressing their emotions, thoughts and opinions — in short everything that would help them destress. We find out how blogs are helping people to cope with their day to day tensions.
Ask software professional Vipul Tripathi whether blogging helps him cope with daily pressures and pat comes the reply, "For me, blogging is a therapeutic exercise, because it's a good outlet for my emotions, thoughts and opinions. I like to discuss things happening around me.
Being an introvert, I find blogging the easiest way of expressing my opinion, without really speaking in public. This also helps me interact with people who share similar opinions and can give me a feedback."
While blogger Vipul Tripathi finds blogging an apt medium of expression, engineering student and netizen Ridhi Kalra feels that "within the blogging community, you are not an island, but one who is capable of reaching out to people across the globe."
"Blogging provides an effective conduit to vent my emotions — whenever I'm sad or angry, and need to get it all out. And reading others' blogs can be therapeutic. Especially about people who manage to overcome hardships and calamities or are battling an illness. They're often inspirational. It makes me realise how fortunate I am and that itself is curative,"shares Ridhi.
And there are several others like her in the city for whom blogging proves to be a satisfactory exercise. Architect Vishal Bansal being a case in point.
Says Bansal, "I wanted to speak out, but without discussing things with anyone in particular, so I blogged, anonymously. I would never have been able to say those things to anyone face to face. For me, it was like talking to a therapist. My therapist was the blogosphere and the fellow bloggers who kept leaving posts with words of encouragement."
Speaking on the issue psychologist Dr Vijay Agarwal, says, "Blog therapy is becoming quite popular among professionals these days. Professional pressures are so high now that people want to express their feelings, frustations and anger before others. But it's the introvert in them that restricts them from doing the same. But blogs are proving to be quite helpful here. I feel that blog therapy is working and helps people cope with stress."
Source:Times of India
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