Can keeping a journal help me cope with having a chronically ill child?

You may not consider yourself a writer, but keeping a journal, diary, or blog allows you to put your thoughts and feelings into words and to discuss daily triumphs and trials. Your life has been drastically changed by your child’s health. Some people do great venting in support groups, but others find it more therapeutic to write about their inner turmoil.

You may start looking forward to having ten minutes every day or every week (or as often as you like) to just let it flow out of you. From The Smart Parent's Guide: Getting Your Kids Through Checkups, Illnesses, and Accidents by Jennifer Trachtenberg.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.