According to a recent article in Newsweek, blogs are good medicine and psychiatrists are starting to tout the therapeutic power of blogging – and many of them now use it in treating their patients! Blogging is supposed to get you closer to a sympathetic audience and that in itself is therapeutic.
Now I’ve never paid for psychiatric advice – at least not directly – although I paid dearly for having a Starter Husband with a BA in Psychology who practiced on me (and I was a willing patient) for over 20 years. However, I’m sure there are times I would have benefited from some couch time with a shrink and now I can rest assured that simply by blogging, I’m receiving treatment. Such a deal! The article does warn “blog to your heart’s content, but leave some things to the imagination” so I will follow that sage advice.
For my fellow bloggers who blog while one the job, why not use paid sick time since you’re getting treated. I’m sure that excuse would NOT have gone far with my employer when I was in the work world.
Haven’t had much time to reply in the last few days, and read your blog via Blackberry, which is almost impossible to reply on that thing! But yes, I would agree, that blogging can be very therapeutic… You don’t think they’d go for the paid sick time, huh!?
Well you can try to put in for sick time just to blog but since the first 8 hours come from your ETO it probably wouldn’t be very beneficial even if you could get it. For some reason, knowing your employer as I do, I have serious doubts!
Have a fun weekend – we’re off to the lake!