He said his first visit to a psychiatrist helped because the doctor encouraged him to unburden himself by telling him everything that was bothering him.
It's unburdened by reference to political and financial catastrophes; it's an antidote to technology and the endless cascade of textureless mundanities captured by camera phones.
Her statement that being able to verbalize her problem helped her to unburden herself is in accordance with the treatment later denoted in psychoanalysis as the catharsis theory.
