Writing About Past Trauma May Improve Wound Healing

Now, some might object that using music to reduce stress and improve mood is a no-brainer and not a really interesting fact. However, there are increasingly stranger things you can do to better your life. Like how studies have proven that writing about your prior experience might help you heal your wounds more quickly.

You've probably all heard that talking about a distressing event might aid in emotional recovery. That is accurate and well-documented, too. The fact that the same technique can treat actual bodily injuries is less generally understood. In fact, cutting the healing period for physical wounds in half if you write about your feelings associated with a past experience.

Participants in a small study involving healthy people between the ages of 64 and 97 were instructed to keep a notebook for 20 minutes each day. One group wrote about the ordinary things they did every day. One wrote about some terrible personal experiences. On each member's arm, a small punch biopsy wound was produced, and the wound's healing was observed. After 11 days, more than 76% of individuals who participated in the expressive writing exercise had healed wounds compared to 42% of the other group.