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Kaitlyn · 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by online user

Sorry to hear you are having trouble dealing with your pent-up emotions now. Another thing which sometimes works for some of us is writing in a journal. Has much the same effect sometimes as talking with someone who understands. You are able to vent what's bothering you, in black and white, on paper. There is a precise record of how you are feeling now. That can be powerfully healing in itself, just to say it to yourself. Also is something that can be shared with a therapist.

The thing is writing in a journal doesn't help.......I just get the words out and NOT the emotions. Writing to my big sister (the one person who understands and isn't able to be supportive) is one of the only ways I get a healthy release when I need to vent about something. Thankfully she realized that I need to be able to vent to her even if she's unable to read those emails. So, she's going to let me vent to her whenever I need to and for the time being she'll just delete those messages unread. Before she only wanted me to write to her about the story I was writing and that caused me to have to vent to people who didn't know how to help me. And venting to them just got the words out and I still bottled up my emotions. Right now I'm feeling like crap physically, which is either a result of the emotional explosion (and not eating or drinking anything yesterday), or I'm coming down with the flu.