No.<p>The way our mind works, associations need to be strengthened for permanence (which is an extra-weird process because it can apparently modify memories).<p>More importantly, he needs to get this off his chest. You find people to talk to in the msot unlikely places.<p>Both language as encoding of thought and transmission are lossy. Rule of thumb: A sentence contains four different things: what I mean, what I say, what you hear and what you understand.<p>Putting things into words already is an important part of how <i>we</i> for ourselves deal with the incomprehensible, the disturbing and revolting.<p>Finding agreement, or at least getting feedback form others that our words form a comprehensible sentiment, heck - just knowing that we ended up with a gramatically well-formed sentence comforts us that the abyss between you and me, between you and everyone else can be bridged.<p>tl;dr: it&#x27;s great that it can be said.