Tweet Your Turmoil, and Get Instant Tweetment
Got a migraine that won't quit? Your five-year-old won't stop bashing his sister in the head with a truck? Your 20th high school reunion is coming up and you're 40 pounds heavier? Tweets can temper your problems. According to a new study , sharing your pain with other sufferers can help alleviate some of the discomfort and stress. "As technology and language evolve, so does the way we share our suffering," newswise.com quotes principal investigator Alexandre DaSilva, assistant professor and director of the Headache and Orofacial Pain Effort at University of Michigan School of Dentistry. "It's the first known study to show the instant and broad impact of migraine attacks on modern patients' lives by decoding manually each one of their individual attack-related tweets." Say what? Simply put, put your agony out there and you are sure to find fellow sufferers. I remember the old bulletin boards that were the precursor of Twitter and Faceb...