Can love letters to strangers be good for your mental health?
Dan Baxter's insight:
'A study published in the journal Emotion reports that performing acts of kindness may help people with social anxiety to feel more positive.
Dr Lynn Alden and Dr Jennifer Trew, from the University of British Columbia, asked volunteers with high levels of social anxiety to commit multiple acts of kindness on two days a week over a four-week period.
"Sometimes people would give a small gift to somebody, or picking somebody up from work, visiting sick people, thanking a bus driver. They were actually fairly small acts," explained Dr Alden.
