Writing helps cancer patients
As much as I love writing, and as much as I think it’s one of the most important tools that the human race has invented, still I am sometimes surprised by what it can do.
A “writing clinician,” Nancy Morgan, asked cancer patients in a Washington, DC, cancer center to write about how cancer had changed them, and how they felt about those changes. It was a simple exercise on the surface, but for many patients, expressing their thoughts and feelings helped improve their thoughts and feelings, in turn leading to a better quality of life.
In other words: Writing is good for you.
This study was printed in the journal The Oncologist. You can download a PDF copy here.
Posted on Friday, March 28, 2008 at 07:08AM
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Roy Jacobsen
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