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Millions of people keep a diary at some point in their lives. Some develop daily writing as a lifelong habit. Keeping a journal of life’s emotionally significant events has surprising benefits:

 Journal writing appears to decrease the number of visits people make to the doctor for physical complaints.

 Writing increases the production of T cells that are beneficial to the immune system.

 Keeping a journal about emotional events improved the grades of a group of college students compared to those who wrote about trivial matters.

 Recently, unemployed workers who wrote about the trauma of losing their jobs found new employment more quickly than those who did not.