Blogging: the new cure for cancer

A recent article in Scientific American suggests that blogging is not only a valid form of self expression, but it can also provide us with significant health benefits.
It's an interesting theory, which basically centers around the idea that if you write down the things that are bothering you, you can start to feel better about them, and attempts to explain the phenomena in scientific terms.
From the article:
Self-medication may be the reason the blogosphere has taken off. Scientists (and writers) have long known about the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences, thoughts and feelings. But besides serving as a stress-coping mechanism, expressive writing produces many physiological benefits. Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces viral load in AIDS patients, and even speeds healing after surgery. A study in the February issue of the Oncologist reports that cancer patients who engaged in expressive writing just before treatment felt markedly better, mentally and physically, as compared with patients who did not.
Here's the thing though, blogging might be good for you in small doses, but it's been shown that if you get too good at it, it could kill you.
And of course, if you live in China, you could simply be beaten to death for blogging.
So, now there's some kind of invisible, precarious line between healthy blogging, and blogging yourself to death. Fantastic, yet another potentially fatal pastime.
Maybe I should just take up skydiving.
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