Modifies a noun

• release: The cathartic release of finally being able to write again also explains, in part, the tangible weight of Bunyan's memories.

• moment: You may detect I am having a cathartic moment, so here is another of my irritations - numbers without thousand separators.

• exercise: And it's a cathartic exercise in just letting out all the garbage stored inside me.

• experience: The writing, he said, had been a very cathartic experience for him.

• effect: More positively, a ' yes ' vote across the Union would have a cathartic effect.

• process: I've always found it a deeply satisfying, almost cathartic process.

Modifying Another Word

• quite: It was quite cathartic to bang a drum loudly first thing on a Monday morning!

• very: The writing, he said, had been a very cathartic experience for him.

• incredibly: The song writing as well as writing poetry and free prose was incredibly cathartic.

• truly: Many find the high-energy aggression levels in Karate truly cathartic.

• pretty: It looks like a pretty cathartic experience, I wish I'd been there.

• so: The process of writing, and singing, is so cathartic anyway that I have serious misgivings about « angry » artists.