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I’m not a psychologist to prove that blogs are helping to relieve our mental stress. But I thought to write this post to explain you about something I experience by blogging. Some of us do blogging with a commercial purpose. Some of us do it as a hobby. And some of us are doing this for both as a hobby and a way of income. But what I feel about blogging is, it helps me to relieve my mental stress at least to some extent.

You might agree with the content in this post or might not. This is my personal opinion only. You are always welcome to continue this discussion with your ideas. Almost all of us blog on a niche we like. By blogging about the things we like, I have personally experienced the improvement of my self confidence and relief of my stresses on the working environment. There is a well known and proved simple psychological exercise to relive from the stress generated by a problem. If you have any problem troubling your mind, if you write it on a paper or tell it to someone (you trust of course) you can reduce your stress at least to some extent.

I think we can experience the same result from blogging. There is no need to publish your blog in public. All you have to do is downloading a free blogging platform like Wordpress and installing it in your local machine. Once you setup the blogging platform, you are ready to write. You can write about your problems, ideas, suggestions on various things. This will definitely reduce your mental stress. The locally hosted blog will act as very good listening friend who doesn’t talk. If you do this make sure that you keep your privacy in a very higher level. Put good passwords for your blog’s admin login and the related databases. Otherwise a life spoiler might find your personal data and use them to find money by blackmailing you or providing those data to a third party to use them against you.

I think if you blog about the real problems you face and real ideas, you will definitely be able to relieve from mental stress at least by a small amount. You might be thinking how to measure the reduced amount of stress. But definitely you will feel more comfortable after doing this. So why are you waiting? Let’s have a try. And let me know if you experience any progress.