Writing as a stress-coping mechanism?

Yesterday I finished reading "7 Habits of Highly Effective People".
Since this book is well-known, I will not go into detail about its content;
however, there were several things I read and I am wondering about.
One thing is the author's claim that regular writing (even daily, as he proposes)
is a way to increase your mental calmness, apparently.

I wondered if this is true; and after a quick google search, I found
[a couple](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15555240.2024.2366220)
[of
studies](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247701209_Expressives_Schreiben_als_Copingtechnik_Ein_Uberblick_uber_den_Stand_der_Forschung)
(note to Gopher users: these links lead to the WWW),
that suggest that at least for male writers, writing for even just
15 minutes daily can reduce "mental exhaustion".

This intrigues me, because feeling mentally exhausted is something that
I have been struggling with for some time now. Because I tried this blog
as kind of a public journal, I have decided to write much more small posts
in the future about various topics. Possible ideas are:

- Regrets
- How to setup a resource-efficient linux installation 
  - (Because I keep seeing people using specialized distros when its not needed)
- Making money in the stock market (algorithmic trading is my hobby)
- Things I have found on the alternate internet
- Books I have read
- Emacs tips.

There are probably more things I can write about. I have been keeping
various of notes in the past years (my "org" folder contains about 170 files)
and I think it won't be too hard to "flesh out" some of them into blog posts.

Last week, I read on someone's blog (sadly I did not save it) that he stopped
"microblogging" and just decided that "everything is a blog post", even if its
just 3 sentences. This is a good strategy I think and similar to how Seth Godin 
seems to do it.

tags: writing