Blogging is good for you!!!

According to this article blogging is good for you, just like complaining! Complaining seems to have a placebo effect in humans where without solving the actual problem they use complaining to feel better about the situation. Now blogging is not all complaining (its most of it though) but it allows the same placebo effect to prevail. It may also trigger release of dopamine in our brains giving us feeling of pleasure!

Flaherty, who studies conditions such as hypergraphia (an uncontrollable urge to write) and writer’s block, also looks to disease models to explain the drive behind this mode of communication. For example, people with mania often talk too much. “We believe something in the brain’s limbic system is boosting their desire to communicate,” Flaherty explains. Located mainly in the midbrain, the limbic system controls our drives, whether they are related to food, sex, appetite, or problem solving. “You know that drives are involved [in blogging] because a lot of people do it compulsively,” Flaherty notes. Also, blogging might trigger dopamine release, similar to stimulants like music, running and looking at art.

Communication (also complaining) has always allowed us to gain better perspective on the situation thereby reducing stress and giving us a clearer head, thereby making us feel better despite all difficulty. Writing is a medium of expression which gives vent to all the feelings and relevant creative urges that you might have. This not only relieves the pressure but allows us to utilize our potential, explore our talents, achieve something along the way as well. You heard it, now start blogging and be happy.