Being treated for Hodgkin's is arduous .our job is often to give encour -agement -the more this personalized for our individual patient the batter .one method is to encuorage our patients to write about their experiences ,in one study this gave clear cute benefits in lumphoma patients participants report positive responses to writing, and post -writing half said that wruting changed their thoughts about their illness in a positive way (this increased on subsequent follow-up) textual analysis identifies themes ralated to experiainces of positive change transformation and self-affirmation through reflection these tech-niques, are akin to those used in post -traumatic stress-and remund us that some of our treatments are as destabilizing to our patient as any shipwreck , rape or earthquake see. www.lymphomastory.com