cathartic

Snow Patrol star Gary Lightbody has said he felt broken by the death of his father Jack and that writing about it was cathartic.

We went out of our way to make something that was overtly depressing and cathartic.

When the Dodgers won the World Series last October, it set off a cathartic celebration throughout the team and around the city.

But overall I struggled with the lack of cathartic ending for all of them.

It was very cathartic and therapeutic for her to watch me do this joke, it was very powerful.