Heartache and Backache- An Online Intervention Addressing Emotional and Physical Pain

A 15 to 20-minute exercise which they examine variables in themselves that suggest that their pain is driven by central nervous system processes. Participants will then write for 20 minutes about their very deepest thoughts and feelings about the most traumatic experience of their lives. A 10-minute break followed by writing again for 20 minutes about how they have come to understand what happened and how they have changed because of the event.

This condition is a 15 to 20-minute exercise that patients complete in which they examine variables in themselves that suggest that their pain is driven by central nervous system processes in their brains. Followed by writing for 20 minutes a letter to a person of their choosing describing healthy behaviors, a 10 minute break and then a second 20 minute writing task describing a time when they performed a healthy behavior.

This 15 to 20-minute exercise that relates to healthy behaviors. Participants are asked to examine various domains of their own health behavior as engaged in over the past 24 hours (e.g., nutrition, sleep, exercise, hygiene, social connections). Participants will then write for 20 minutes about their very deepest thoughts and feelings about the most traumatic experience of their lives. A 10-minute break followed by writing again for 20 minutes about how they have come to understand what happened and how they have changed because of the event.

This 15 to 20-minute exercise that relates to healthy behaviors. Participants are asked to examine various domains of their own health behavior as engaged in over the past 24 hours (e.g., nutrition, sleep, exercise, hygiene, social connections). Followed by writing for 20 minutes a letter to a person of their choosing describing healthy behaviors, a 10 minute break and then a second 20 minute writing task describing a time when they performed a healthy behavior.