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Journal Writing Treatment Report

See also: Creative Writing/Poetry

What is Journal Writing? A journal is a continued series of writings by a person in response to their life experiences and events. Diaries contain a description of daily events. A journal may include those descriptions, but it also contains reflections on what took place and expresses emotions and understandings about them.


Reasons used

232 patients in the community are using or have used Journal Writing.

Top 10 (Show all)

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Treat my mood condition(s) 65 28%
Other 38 16%
Depression 31 13%
General health 23 9%
Support another treatment 14 6%
Memory problems 11 4%
Don't know 4 1%
Feeling guilty 2 <1%
Self-expression 1 <1%
Anxiety and fear 1 <1%

Other treatments patients are using for Treat my mood condition(s) include Bupropion, Lamotrigine, and Venlafaxine.

Schedules

Based on the patients currently using Journal Writing.

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All (Show top 10)

  1.5 hours as needed 15minutes as needed 1hours as needed 1 hr as needed 1minutes as needed 1 other as needed 1other as needed 20 min as needed 20minutes as needed 25 min as needed 2hours as needed 30minutes as needed 3hours as needed 45 min as needed 5minutes as needed 60 min all the time (24/7) 60minutes as needed as needed daily weekly 1 hr monthly 1 hr every other week 1 hr weekly 5 other monthly 2 hr weekly 3 hr weekly 1 hr daily 1 min daily 1 other daily 10 min weekly 1.5 hr daily 2 intl units daily 2 min daily 2 other daily 15 min weekly 20 min weekly 3 hr daily 120 min monthly 30 min weekly 60 min every other week 5 min daily 60 min weekly 10 min daily 90 min weekly 15 min daily 120 min weekly 20 min daily 25 min daily 30 min daily 40 min daily 45 min daily 50 min daily 60 min daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 5 Number of Patients: 5 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 5 Number of Patients: 5 2 Number of Patients: 2 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 11 Number of Patients: 11 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 4 Number of Patients: 4 7 Number of Patients: 7 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 16 Number of Patients: 16 1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 12 Number of Patients: 12 1 Number of Patients: 1 12 Number of Patients: 12 1 Number of Patients: 1 19 Number of Patients: 19 2 Number of Patients: 2 37 Number of Patients: 37 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 6 Number of Patients: 6  

Duration

How long current patients have been using Journal Writing or how long patients were using Journal Writing before stopping.

Currently Using Journal Writing

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
1
2
3
38
25
60

Stopped Using Journal Writing

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
2
0
1
2
0
1
Why Patients Stopped Using Journal Writing (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 5 83% Other: 83%
Side effects too severe 2 33% Side effects too severe: 33%
Did not seem to work 1 17% Did not seem to work: 17%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 31 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major 29% 4
Moderate 50% 7
Slight 14% 2
Can't tell 7% 1

Treat my mood condition(s)

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 3% 1
None 97% 30

Top reported side-effects include: Stress/anxiety, Anxiety, tiredness

Summary results are based on 31 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 31)

  • fragiletruth
    Sex: F
    Depression: 0
    Emotional: 0
    Compulsion: 0
    Anxiety: 0
    Mania: 2
    Physical: 0
    External Stress: Low
    24 F
    Function: High
    Distress: Low
  • fragiletruth
  • by fragiletruth
    Aug 18, 2008
  • EfficacyModerate
  • Side-effectsNone
  • General health
Advice/Tips
I've been journaling for over 10 years. I find that as I write, it focuses my thoughts, and I can often reveal truths to myself that I wanted to hide from. Journaling also allows me to see patterns in my thought processes and in where I was in mentally at different times, which helped me find a diagnosis that wasn't just 'depression'.

  • b3ck
    Sex: F
    Depression: 1
    Emotional: 2
    Compulsion: 2
    Anxiety: 3
    Mania: 4
    Physical: 2
    External Stress: Overwhelming
    30 F
    Function: High
    Distress: Moderate
  • b3ck
  • by b3ck
    Aug 19, 2008
  • EfficacyModerate
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Treat my mood condition(s)

See all evaluation results for Journal Writing

Report created on November 07, 2009.