What Are Good Girlfriends Good For? The Talking Cure Revisited

The article was about how beneficial it is to grow up with a sibling or having a special person to talk to can really help relieve stress and keep your body healthier. 

Most people don't realize that even useless chit chat can be considered "strong medicine." For men, this talk can be about weather, sports, or cars while for women it can be about something as unimportant as a recipe, shopping, and people at work. Just being able to engage someone face-to-face relieves stress. Human interaction is crucial to our mental health. Although men and women speak and act differently, the built-in social support of having a sibling is equally important.

Question: Do you agree that having a sibling or best friend to talk to about your troubles helps to relieve stress and anxiety and why?

10 comments:

Foster said...

Yes I do believe that having a sibling or best friend to talk to helps relieve stress and anxiety because I feel that if I didn't have my brothers to talk to, I would have to keep a lot of things to myself. Also, being able to talk to friends concerning just about anything is very important to a healthy life.

ktran said...

Yes, I agree that having someone to talk to about your troubles is probably one of the best ways to relieve stress and anxiety because the "bottling-up" method doesn't always work and tends to explode at any given point in time.

kraynock said...

I do believe that having a sibling or best friend to talk to is one of the best and most affective ways to relieve stress. I myself dont have any siblings and sometimes i find it hard because I have nobody around the house in my age group to talk to on the spot. But I do have good friends and when I tell them whats going on in my life or just simply talk to them I feel so much better. I think that this relieves stress because you realize that someone out there understands that you're either having a hard time at the moment, or someone cares about you enough just to sit and talk about work, shopping, or a recipe.

Drodrigues said...

I agree that talking to someone relieves stress because you get it off your chest and you can get that persons feedback and what they think about it.

Maisam said...

I do agree that having a sibling or best friend to talk about your own troubles can help to deal with stress. I have two siblings and I've noticed that they care for you the most so they help me out the most and that I can trust them no matter what because friends are not always there for you and you can't always trust them either because you lose them and find new ones, etc. But anyways, i think one of the best ways to cope with things is to share it with other people and ask their opinion because you can just get it out of your chest.

-Dan. Raza

nicole said...

i do too believe that having a friend or sibling to talk to about everything is a effective way to relieve stress. Around me, alot of people are my age so i can talk to whoever i want to help me and everything seems alot less "horrible" in my eyes.

Harlz said...

I believe that yes, it is easier if you have a sibling or a best friend to talk to. I know that when I was younger I certainly did not have many friends but my cousin Amanda made it alot easier on me and I was nor stressed out so much. It is even still the same today, because even though now I have a sibling he is only 6 years old so, my cousin is someone that I still can talk to.

- Harley

LaurenZenzie said...

I strongly believe that it is easier for people with siblings to deal with stressful situations, because they always have someone to talk to. Personally, if i didn't have my sister and my best friends to talk to when I am stressed, that built up stress inside my body would cause me to go insane. It must be hard for people who don't like to communicate with their friends/siblings about stresses and anxieties because they might not be able to deal with it themseleves, causing very traumatic situations such as suicide to occur. So in the end, i believe it is extremely important to have a best friend/sibling to talk to when under anxiety or stress.

tcolossa said...

I do believe that having a sibling or best friend to talk to relieves stress. When you're able to talk about your problems and issues with someone who cares (such as a sibling or best friend), it relieves stress and makes you feel better. If you don't have anybody to talk to, however, it bottles up and creates alot of stress.

Marianna said...

I would agree 100% that having someone there relieves stress immensely. Being able to talk about your problems and emotions helps you better understand and deal with them. My research paper is on how isolation kills - a study on how people with no social interaction develop more severe diseases (both physical and psychological) and I'm finding that it really does kill.