{"id":1163,"date":"2008-05-19T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2008\/05\/your-blog-can-be-group-therapy.html"},"modified":"2008-05-19T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T09:45:00","slug":"your-blog-can-be-group-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2008\/05\/your-blog-can-be-group-therapy.html","title":{"rendered":"Your Blog Can Be Group Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAmong those quoted for CNN’s article, “Your blog can be group therapy,”<\/a> was Therapy Doc<\/a>, whom I‘ve interviewed for our “How Do You Move Beyond Blue?” series<\/a>. The article is worth reading. You can get to it by clicking here.<\/a> It starts:<\/p>\n

When a 24-year-old woman who called herself “90DayJane” launched a blog in February announcing she would write about her life and feelings for three months and then commit suicide, 150,000 readers flocked to the site. Some came to offer help, some to delight in the drama. Others speculated it was all a hoax.
\nStacey Kim says blogging helps her cope with being a widow and a single mom to twins Riley, left, and Madeleine.
\nFew, however, questioned why she would share her deepest thoughts and feelings with strangers online. In the age of cyber-voyeurism, the better question might be: Why wouldn’t she?
\nOvereating, alcoholism, depression — name the problem and you’ll find someone’s personal blog on the subject. Roughly 12 million Americans have blogs, according to polls by the Pew Internet and American Life Project in 2006, and many seem to use them as a form of group therapy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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