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Sounds like the exact same thing you do with a therapist.

Want me to show you a little trick, to get your mind off that cancer? here, gimme your finger...

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I would guess writing eases a great many stresses, not only fears of cancer -- one factor contributing to the explosion of blogging.

Anything that helps people come to terms with having cancer is a good thing.We need more experience in alternative therapies.I recently got accupucture for a very bad back and it was the only thing thats ever helped it.Its not a cure but it helped.

If I had terminal cancer I'd be smoking bowls, not writing. I'd want to focus on anything BUT the cancer. If the cancer is so bad you know you're going to die, what other fears would you have to write than "It's gonna hurt, I'm gonna die. I could either choose to accept my fate and take the radiation drugs which will make me feel like complete ***** and might make my life worse before I die but MIGHT save me, or I could choose to go on with my life mostly normally and let the cancer kill me."

I've had close family with cancer, not terminal cancer, but cancer that took multiple operations and several rounds of chemo to finish it off. Cancer patients should be focusing on other things besides their cancer, the biggest fear of all is death, and that's obviously a pretty highly possible conclusion when someone says "you have cancer and you have 8 months to live."

If only they could figure ways for people to write out their lung cancer, AIDS and other deadly diseases.

But hey, applauds to them, for trying..

Instead of writing, I believe sex would ease many diggers' minds on any number of things.

Say they got a writer's block, seems like more stress ya think?

Hey you wanna know what would really make my quality of life go up after I found out I had cancer? How about telling me there's a cure!

Now if I can only write a letter to god asking why he abandoned me! What? Not funny? Fail=Myself?

I would take my mind off having terminal cancer by going sky diving without a parachute.

So does watching porn and jerking off.

Face your fears. A blank page always listens.

I live with chronic pain. Almost no one, even my closest friends and family, bothers to listen to me when I try to lighten my load. Sometimes I just want someone to listen. A blank page aways listens, and never judges.

If you need to make amends to someone and you cant because you don't know where they are or maybe they have passed. You can always write them a letter then after just burn it. Believe me it works to ease your mind so you can move forward.

There's some (pretty funny) sick humor here. I like it. But, remember a lot of people with cancer don't think real clearly. I'd be interested to know how this clinician determined the difference between "thinking" and "feeling." Then I'd like to know where she got the grant to do the study. I'd like to apply.

Writing is a great way to cope for people. I'm a psychology major and it's been proven that writing helps ease depression and control moods. It offers insight to people as to why they are feeling the way they are simply by seeing the words. Think of it like not being able to solve a math problem until you write it out. When people can put that information down and see it, it becomes much easier to understand and comprehend what is going on. For cancer patients, they can realize their fears and also come to terms with the fact that they are dying. This is a great form of therapy and it's free so what more can you ask for?

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I think writting helps you cope with anything. Why do you think they encourage people in the military off in some war to write back home? Because it makes you feel better and cope. Plus its like letting some of the frustrations out of your shoulders. You know?

I believe this has powerful therapeutic implications for blogging.

In writing you can say so much that you can't say to people. It really eases all types of pain.

Having watched someone I love die of cancer, I can assure you that writing doesn't do *****-all for easing the pain of cancer, though it might help with the "stress". In the end, morphine is your best friend.

Callous it may sound, but when these "foofoo" studies get press and are media news fillers, it drives me CRAZY. I have had immediate family sick or die of cancer, which makes "writing eases stress of cancer" seem almost cynical and ridiculous. Less minutia please!

And yet nobody has found a cure.

You just have to take your mind off of the cancer on a day to day basis, because some people can live 20 years with a terminal cancer. You just should use your time wisely to enjoy the life you have.