Expressive writing, a structured intervention that encourages individuals to articulate their deepest thoughts and feelings, has attracted considerable scientific interest due to its potential to ...

In a study of nearly 1,300 returning veterans reporting reintegration problems, those who completed online expressive-writing sessions showed more improvements than peers who had not written at all or ...

Finding the right words to describe how one feels can be the first step toward recovery…as one University of Houston study found. Journaling can be cathartic in helping to make sense of traumatic ...

Previous research suggests that writing about stressful experiences results in better health and psychological well-being. In the present study, a multi-ethnic sample of 79 HIV-positive women and men ...

Expressive writing -- writing about one's deepest thoughts and feelings -- may help change the way cancer patients think and feel about their disease. In one of the first studies published in an ...

The worst year of Norma Pitzer-Kelly's life arrived in 2010. That winter, her parents died within months of each other. She lost her job as an insurance adjuster in early spring. Just before summer, ...

If writing about the difficult parts of your life were a drug — called "expressive writing" in the literature — it would be making bank for some faceless pharmaceutical company. The guy who discovered ...

Fifty three participants (25 females, mean age 34.1 range 20–54) were recruited. Three participants did not complete all baseline questionnaires and 13 took the diary but did not return. Twelve ...

The unfolding Coronavirus epidemic is generating tremendous individual and societal anxiety, as reported in almost every newspaper in the world. Why wouldn't it? Paradoxically, this survival reaction ...

Writing down fears, emotions and the benefits of a cancer diagnosis may improve health outcomes for Asian-American breast cancer survivors, according to a study conducted by a researcher at the ...

The unfolding Coronavirus epidemic is generating tremendous individual and societal anxiety, as reported in almost every newspaper in the world. Why wouldn't it? Paradoxically, this survival reaction ...