Personal tragedies such as death, illness or other emotional stress lead to depression in many people. Medication or talking to other people does not always help to overcome this depression and every day becomes a torment. What helps many depressed people, however, is to express their feelings and thoughts on the Internet through a blog.

 

A blog is like an online diary that is accessible to anyone who finds their way there through the search engines. Just like in a conventional diary, you can freely write what you want and what helps you on your own blog.
This brings up feelings that you try to suppress. The beauty of a blog is that it can be as anonymous as you want it to be. Information is shared with other people in similar situations. This can act like therapy because you feel like your tragedy can help others, which in turn helps combat depression. Sitting down at the computer every day to write to the world about your life gives a depressed person much needed purpose. They can cling to it like a straw until they have pulled themselves out of the deep waters of depression.

Ellen England set a good example, having experienced a series of sad events in her life that plunged her into a deep depression. She first lost her father, then a baby. After medication and therapy failed to help her with her depression, she began to write down her daily experiences and feelings in her blog. She soon realised that she was literally writing her grief off her chest. Her readers supported her with their comments, in which they gave her strength and shared their own experiences.
Every day she wrote down her feelings, she felt stronger and better and was able to start living her life again.

A blog against depression should not only contain negative things. Even if writing down negative feelings and thoughts is part of the therapy, it is just as important to write down something positive that you find in your life every day. In this way, you realise how many positive things you have in your life that you take for granted and don't see because of all the grief.