How expressive writing can help people work through difficult emotions and alleviate stress
of undergraduate nursing students found that students who kept journals about their clinical experience had less anxiety about caring for patients.Enter Janis Whitlock, a research scientist at the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research who studies adult and adolescent mental health and well-being.
The project asks participants to log how they are feeling and answer questions about how the crisis is impacting them, their use of social media, and whether they have found any “silver linings.” Participants receive a daily e-mail inviting them to write new journal entries, and can write as often as they wish.
Whitlock plans to use the entries to create a snapshot of society’s collective experience at this time. Future research from the project may document the day-to-day impacts of policy interventions to ultimately help inform policy responses to future pandemics. “These are snapshots of our life in a time that is absolutely unparalleled,” Whitlock said. “What are people’s stories about how they coped, how it changed life, where they found hope?”
The take-home message: Writing down your experiences and feelings is an evidence-based strategy for coping with anxiety and negative emotions during this crisis.LinkedIn Image Credit: Juice Flair/Shutterstock
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