Journaling about distressing or traumatic experiences leads to statistically significant improvements in symptoms for fibromyalgia and IBS.

“people suffering from fibromyalgia which is a chronic pain condition that is or can be very debilitating has shown significant Improvement in symptomology that is reduced chronic pain after they do this four bouts of writing in the way that I described and again the relief from pain seems to be ongoing again not a total cure of their symptoms... people suffering from IBS or irritable bowel syndrome have achieved some significant degree of relief of their symptoms relative to people who also have irritable bowel syndrome but who do not do the exact same protocol that we're talking about today”