CArta and Penna and its own thoughts. And nothing else. Teenagers are rediscovering handwriting. In fact, many young people, according to the most recent research, that they are putting socials aside to rediscover their more intimate side. «Reflective writing, in adolescence, helps to stimulate an internal movement Which leads to involving reason, fantasy and instinct »explains Elisa Stefanati psychotherapist at the Aesthe Medical Poliambulatorio in Ferrara.
Teenagers and handwriting, a generational rediscovery
According to the most recent research conducted in recent years, both from the University of Milan and from the Pew Reaserch Center, teenagers are rediscovered by hand writing. And, above all, they begin to put social networks aside. The Meneghina University has in fact shown that 60% of teenagers, interviewed for the report of the National Childhood Observatory and adolescence are not physically appreciated. AND The fault of this discomfort comes from social media. Still, the Pew Reaserch Center data They highlight an increase compared to 2022 of teenagers who are abandoning social media. In fact, only 11%, in 2022 it was 24%, believed that Facebook & Co have positive effects on their life and personality. And it is no coincidence that therefore that 40% of the boys start to discover, or perhaps it is better to say rediscovered, old habits to feel better with yourself. Like that of writing by hand.
If diaries and pens had been put aside in favor of social networks, today the trend is reversing. Diary in hand, putting her thoughts black on white, whether it is a chronicle of your day or a letter to the adult self changes, helps the youngest to make mental clarity and grow: “Writing life in adolescence in general is a refuge that protects, represents an intimate space To look inside and daily practice, for example, to keep a diary as a daily life partner, it helps to explore emotions, to better investigate the experiences to get to know each other and become more confident with one’s identity to manage emotional “storms” and to build an autonomous self, “explains the expert.
How does it work?
No complications, to write to yourself, just only paper and pen. At most a diary, and the game is done: «But one must make distinction between keeping a diary and writing to themselves. In the last case, in fact, one is expected projection towards the future that allows you to go beyond the present timeusually represented by the diary. Project yourself into a future still from Imagine opens the door to a vision of himself still to be built. Writing to your ego of tomorrow is like imagining a part of itself that does not yet exist. In this sense, therefore, fantasy becomes fundamental because writing helps imagine it and delineate it ».
Not only that, but writing to the adult self also means “fixing” the person you are today on paper, Put the current identity on white so as to keep a memory to browse tomorrow. In addition to being aware of one’s future. While the diary highlights the present, and the consequences that some events have on current life, imagine the future It also means to make projects and above all to outline a possible future identity, focusing on it.
The benefits of writing to the adult self
Why does this type of writing have benefits? “This motorcycle in forward allows the teenager to get out of the legacy of the here and now, from the difficulties of everyday life, from the evolutionary challenges, from the threats to the construction of one’s own autonomies, why The element of the future automatically projects writing into an extended vision of itself and one’s life. The letter to the adult self, on the other hand, is able to explore a more design size, made of new purposes, of overcome fears, of resolved insecurities And these allows the writer to be able to work on resources and potential that at the moment could be only embryonic, but that could be developed in a hypothetical future “explains the expert. In other words, write to the self gives great helps to detach from the problems of the present and focus on the fact that in the future the situations changeevolve, even for the better.
Furthermore, It also helps to keep impulsiveness at baytypical of age. Hand writing also becomes a self-reflexion that allows young people to focus calmly, their personal evolution. Then reread, after a few months or even years, it helps to highlight the changesthe evolutions and progress made, how the problems and difficulties have faced. And to realize that they can be overcome. Writing to themselves is therefore a way to develop one’s emotional maturity, learning to relate to one’s emotions.