Blogging About Breast Cancer – A New Therapy?

It has been a tough year with my mom passing away in June and recently another member of the family has had serious health problems. It has helped me a lot to share thoughts and feelings with friends and family through social media while I was dealing with the loss of my mom and now this recent development. The more people I talk to about tweeting and face book, the more I realize how supportive social media can be. Blogging about breast cancer can be therapy.  I benefitted all these years from blogging about my experience with breast cancer. I definitely find that sharing openly on the web helps keeps me sane about my thoughts on the disease. A recent study also suggests that there are benefits to blogging for women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, I didn’t start blogging until treatment was over, but it does help to be able to reach out to people who can empathize with what I have been through. The study is called “Project Connect Online: Randomized Trial of an Internet-Based Program to Chronicle the Cancer Experience and Facilitate Communication.”  It was designed to show that women diagnosed with breast cancer benefitted through expressing their emotions and receiving support by developing a personal website and chronicling their experience online.    The outcome was that six months out women who had been randomly selected to work online, showed better depressive symptoms, benefits to positive mood and life appreciation compared to the women in the st...
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