Ana Marie Cox Instagram – Focused expressive writing has been found to have concrete benefits in groups and practiced by individuals. It’s been shown to help people process PTSD, get jobs quicker, even more literally heal (!). I’ve got sources for all the studies I cite below.
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The origins of FEW: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691617707315
FEW and healing: Wounds: https://rebecca-stafford.org/wp-content/uploads/KoschWanez-Heidi-2013-Expressive-Writing-and-Wound-Healing-in-Older-Adults-A-RCT.pdf
Asthma: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.578.414&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Depression: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3759583/
IBS: https://journals.lww.com/ajg/Abstract/2010/11000/Expressive_Writing_Is_a_Promising_Therapeutic.23.aspx
FEW and coping: Reducing maladaptive rumination: https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037/1528-3542.8.2.302
PTSD: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4669193/
Covid trauma: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.587282/full
FEW and success:
Job finding: https://www.jstor.org/stable/256708#metadata_info_tab_contents
Music performance: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01334/full
Grades: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232541937_Stress_Management_through_Written_Emotional_Disclosure_Improves_Academic_Performance_among_College_Students_with_Physical_Symptoms | Posted on 11/Apr/2024 00:14:21
