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 & Efficacy
| Reasons used | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Treat my mood condition(s) | 75 |
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| Other | 44 |
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| Depression | 42 |
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| General health | 22 |
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| Memory problems | 19 |
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| Support another treatment | 16 |
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See all 224 patients currently using Journal Writing
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Side Effects
Schedules
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently using Journal Writing. See all 53 dosages ►
| 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 | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Other
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7 | 88% |
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Side effects too severe
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2 | 25% |
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Did not seem to work
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1 | 13% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
Patient Evaluations
See all 31 patient evaluations
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- fragiletruth
- Sex: F
- Depression: 0
- Emotional: 0
- Compulsion: 0
- Anxiety: 0
- Mania: 2
- Physical: 0
- External Stress: Low
- 24 F
- Function: High
- Distress: Low
- See profile
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- fragiletruth
- daily
- since Aug 18, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for General health
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Side Effects
None
- 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. J... See full evaluation
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- b3ck
- Sex: F
- Depression: 1
- Emotional: 2
- Compulsion: 2
- Anxiety: 3
- Mania: 4
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: Overwhelming
- 30 F
- Function: High
- Distress: Moderate
- See profile
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- b3ck
- since Aug 19, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Treat my mood condition(s)
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- Nyrsaeans
- Sex: F
- Depression: 1
- Emotional: 1
- Compulsion: 2
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 3
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: Overwhelming
- 32 F
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Moderate
- See profile
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- Nyrsaeans
- 1 hr daily
- since Oct 24, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Treat my mood condition(s)
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips Its good to get things off your chest, sometimes have an online support base and writing things down to remember them or just work things out. See full evaluation
See all 31 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.