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This research found that writing about important personal experiences in an emotional way for as little as 15 minutes on three separate days was linked to better mental and physical health. The results were seen across ages, genders, cultures, social classes, and personality types. Computer text analysis showed that people…
Writing Therapy (WT) is defined as a process of investigation about personal thoughts and feelings using the act of writing as an instrument, with the aim of promoting self-healing and personal growth. WT has been integrated in specific psychotherapies with the aim of treating specific mental disorders (PTSD, depression, etc.).…
Researchers tested a type of artificial intelligence that reads doctors' notes to find how severe different substance use problems are. They used an open-source AI model called Flan-T5 and gave it carefully written instructions so it could find severity details without extra training. The AI found more of these severity…
