Writing Therapy.

I'm doing it for my senior project. I did a ton of research on it, and my essential question is "How is writing therapeutic to the human mind." Since this is pretty much a writing site, I was wondering if you people would be so kind and tell me how writing has effected your life, and how you may have even used it as a therapy. Writing therapy is a very postive way to deal with negative emotions, as opposed to self-hard, eating disorders, and substance abuse. However, this therapy is very unknown, I would really like to make it known!

Thank you

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