{"id":1293,"date":"2004-09-09T07:02:06","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T07:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/09\/09\/diarying_bad_for_your_health.html"},"modified":"2004-09-09T07:02:06","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T07:02:06","slug":"diarying_bad_for_your_health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/09\/09\/diarying_bad_for_your_health.html","title":{"rendered":"diarying bad for your health?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Keeping a diary is bad for your health, say UK psychologists. They found that regular diarists were more likely than non-diarists to suffer from headaches, sleeplessness, digestive problems and social awkwardness.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;Although she does not have proof, Duncan speculates that diarists buck the usual trend because instead of a single, cathartic outpouring to offload trauma, diarists continually churn over their misfortunes and so never get over them. &#8216;It&#8217;s probably better not to get caught in a ruminative, repetitive cycle,&#8217; she says.&#8221;  &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/news\/news.jsp?id=ns99996374\">Dear diary, you make me sick<\/a> in NewScientist<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if blogging\/online journaling differs from diarying in this fashion, given that writers have an audience.  Do they still get caught in the cycle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Keeping a diary is bad for your health, say UK psychologists. They found that regular diarists were more likely than non-diarists to suffer from headaches, sleeplessness, digestive problems and social awkwardness. &#8230; &#8220;Although she does not have proof, Duncan speculates that diarists buck the usual trend because instead of a single, cathartic outpouring to offload [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}