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Updated April 8, 2024
Writing about your experiences can help you manage stress and increase self-awareness.
Decades’ worth of research suggests that writing in a journal can be a useful tool for improving emotional well-being. Both expressive writing— in which you journal about your deepest thoughts and feelings — and gratitude journaling may be helpful additions to conventional treatments for symptoms of anxiety, depression and PTSD, according to a review of 20 randomized controlled trials reported in Family Medicine and Community Health in 2022.
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