Speak your mind, save your life.

WOMEN -- Health; MORTALITY; CONFLICT management; SELF-expression; INTERPERSONAL conflict; EMOTIONS (Psychology) -- Physiological aspects; EAKER, Elaine D.; MARRIAGE counseling

Looks at the health benefits of emotional expression by women. Results of a study by epidemiologist Elaine D. Eaker which showed that women who regularly fail to express their feelings during conflict have death rate four times higher than women who express their emotions regularly; Claim that the exact reasons for the findings are unknown; Recommendations to women for expressing feelings to spouses; Potential benefits of seeking marriage counseling to learn methods of emotional expression.