Journaling prompts

Expressive writing has shown small average benefits across meta-analyses of otherwise healthy people [1][2], with mixed results for clinical populations [3]. Effects appear larger when writing moves toward making sense of an experience rather than only re-describing distress. Prompts help when a blank page does not.

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