Does talking help?
It is said that talking helps.
Whether it does is an often posed question e.g. here or here - except when it doesn't.
When therapists do it, it's called talk therapy.
Personally I have noticed that the chance of problems going away or otherwise being solved after talking about it seems to increase. This perception could due to any number of biases of course. Anyway I'd like to ask for your opinion on when and whether it helps.
What do you think?
Talking does help most people [pollid:1180]
Talking does help me [pollid:1181]
Talking helps more with small everyday problems than with big/traumatic/existential problems [pollid:1182]
How often do you talk about your problems? [pollid:1183]
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