Second, over the course of the three or four days, they showed a shift in perspective, which Pennebaker measured through their pronoun use. Instead of writing about what happened to me and what I am going through, they started writing about why he abused me or why she divorced me. In other words, they stepped away from their own emotional turmoil and tried to get inside the head of another person. The ability to look at the trauma from different perspectives, Pennebaker said, indicates that the victim has put some distance between himself and the event, which allows him to understand how it
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