User blog:PoisonVil/Why Excessive Online venting is unhealthy for you and Others

Good Morning, afternoon, or Night! I’m Vil and this is an essay on why Venting excessively online publicly is an unhealthy way of venting and letting out your emotions

what is Venting?
Venting according to the Marriam-webster dictionary is to relieve someone of emotions or to let out emotions.

Venting can be taken positively or negatively depending on how you want to let out your emotions

An example of a Positive Vent is:
OMG!! I’M SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW I FINALLY GOT MY NEW CAR AND I GOT TO DRIVE MYSELF TO WORK AND SCHOOL!!! AHHHHHHH

An example of a Negative vent is:
I failed my test with a 50% if my parents find out I’ll be grounded for a month, and I can’t be grounded I have clubs and sports and other things! I’m so scared for what they will say and I’m usually a good student but this test I had was very difficult because it was a Placement test

Why venting is healthy for you
The reason Venting is healthy is that it’s better to let emotions out than bottling them up, Venting is extremely helpful and recommended for others, venting can help you become a healthier person and have a better mindset when you let out your emotions

What is Excessive Venting
Excessive venting is when one constantly vents, mainly negative, about everything that happens to them. An example of excessive venting is Venting every time something that’s a minor inconvenience, in which it causes you to only think of the negatives in your life and causes your mental health to become very bad and upsetting.

Why Excessive venting is unhealthy
Like I had said before the reason excessive venting is unhealthy is that it will NOT better your mental health and it’ll make it worse, and for viewers of these vents who may also not be well mentally it’ll affect their Mental health and make it drop. Excessive venting can also deteriorate the venter’s mental health and cause them to go into a depressive Episode from this, Venting is not something that should be done a lot and should only be done if the thing is TRUELY damaging your mental health and you need to let it out to make yourself feel better

Better ways to Vent
Here are some healthier options to vent instead of venting online


 * Writing in a Journal
 * Making a Padlet for yourself to vent into for your smaller vents
 * Vent art that you don’t share
 * Writing your vent on a Piece of paper then tearing it up
 * Song writing
 * Venting to a stuff animal or a photo of an OC
 * writing a story