Author: hatmaker510
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:55 pm
I call them "vent" letters. I’ve used that as a coping skills a few times in my life. During one of the rough times of my overall relationship with my mother and while she was in town visiting, I ended up with a headache the whole time she was there. Even after she left it still didn’t subside. My therapist suggested I write one of those letters to her. I had trouble getting started, but once I got going, I remember going on for pages and pages. I also remember getting so angry the pressure of the pen practically tearing through the paper. It was only after I finished writing that fuck-you letter to her that the damn headache finally went away!!
Fuck-you or ‘vent’ letters or whatever you want to call them are VERY powerful. We MUST express those emotions and this is a really good way of doing just that. I think it works no matter who we’re writing to – whether it’s to ourselves (our addiction) or to someone in our life.
