How can writing about your emotional wounds heal the pain?

The old saying "No man is an island" comes to my mind. How it works exactly I doubt Anyone can really know; although there are a great many who atest to their own *fact* that it does.

My belief it works is this. It is rather the same as talking with true emotion to another human being; one on one and you know/feel that person is NOT in any way judging you. Not judging; simply really *hearing* you; this I have found to be profoundly healing. No science answer for that either...

Writing has much the same effect - the thoughts that are damaging me in my mind come out of my arm and onto the paper (not typing so much but really writing this stuff down on paper) - much like vomiting. Upchuck - get it OUT.

Emotional garbage is SO heavy to carry around. When it is shared; it seems to become at least half of what it was; talk - write - the more done; the better felt. No input really required. No *hole* left to be filled with the dumping of the tonnage of garbage.

Like a sponge effect; the mind seems to have more room now. Feels *cleaner* - less weighty after all the dirty water is squeezed out of it.

I don't know if that makes any sense to you...or anyone else. But it seems to make sense to me.

No one is an island. We are here to sharewith one another our burdens as much as our joys and that is what makes living worth while.