When Lydia (not her real name) started attending a top girls' school six years ago, she experienced loneliness and insecurity.
She felt out of place in school and was weighed down by family problems.
For four years, she cut and even burned herself.
Lydia started a blog because of her struggle with self-injury and depression (which she was diagnosed with after her church pastor asked her to see a psychiatrist) and found it helped her to vent her frustrations.
A new study on anxious or stressed teenage students in Israel said that there is therapeutic value when young people blog about their social-emotional woes.
As reported in The New York Times, research by University of Haifa psychology Professors Meyran Boniel-Nissim and Azy Barak shows that improvements in mood was greatest among bloggers who opened their posts to comments as compared to those who did not allow comments or who kept a traditional diary.
Lydia started a blog because of her struggle with self-injury and depression (which she was diagnosed with after her church pastor asked her to see a psychiatrist) and found it helped her to vent her frustrations.
A new study on anxious or stressed teenage students in Israel said that there is therapeutic value when young people blog about their social-emotional woes.
As reported in The New York Times, research by University of Haifa psychology Professors Meyran Boniel-Nissim and Azy Barak shows that improvements in mood was greatest among bloggers who opened their posts to comments as compared to those who did not allow comments or who kept a traditional diary.
