From Today: A new study suggests that talking about one’s negative feelings and experiences in the third person can help reduce fear and anxiety.
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This is very true. I wrote my entire hospitalization experience in the third person. Short stories are best told in the third person. It is very helpful.
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The only problem with this is that the psychiatrists believe talking to oneself is schizophrenia.
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Yes, agreed. Do it, but certainly don’t let on to anyone in the “mental health” industry…you’ll just have your drugs/diagnoses increased and/or be locked up for longer.
I have found that third person does help in both journalling and general situations, but if I let something along those lines slip out when I was in therapy, I’d get that “special” look from the psychiatrist. I have been a psychiatry-and-therapy-free zone for going on two years now , and the third person approach has come in very handy to provide a little distance and create some internal empathy when I have been short of it.
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