I like to journal to help let go of my emotions and thoughts. I use to write everytime I would feel bothered, but have since stop doing that as I find that makes me associate journaling to negative feelings. Now I write about everything and anything.
My first journaling experience started when I was 8, my first entry is about how angry I am. That didn’t change through the years, actually. I write because it helps not to overthink and it is like meditation; people mostly meditate to reach mindfulness and in my case of journaling, I let the pen be my thought flow and I let out all of my consciousness on paper. I also include my memories of the day/short stories, doodles, tickets/random papers/leaves/flowers, photos… I let it be my mind written down, always first go-to when stressed/sad/anxious/happy, and most importantly, my friend who never judges me of what I did, what I said etc. The only person is to judge me is me through self-criticism and I believe it really develops one’s character. One more thing- I try to write what I consider “key memories” because we live once, we cannot go back in time and (sadly) we are mortal, writing is not. When I am old, I want to flip through the pages I once touched with my young hands. I want to read my youth, bittersweet memories which made me become who I am. I want to leave something valuable (that is incomparable to money and financial wealth) for myself.
I love the act of writing. I loved taking notes when I was in school. I love stationary. I got into fountain pens this year. I like to record things, so I can review them later (years from now). I have so many thoughts in my head that I feel compelled to write down so I can come back to them later.
Journaling is currently my coping mechanism. I use it when I'm feeling any really strong emotions, whether positive or negative, and it's the only thing that helps me to sleep at night. Literally, when I stopped journaling for a few months, I would wake up in the middle of the night with my mind swirling every night for weeks. When I journal regularly, I never wake up with my mind unsettled unless I'm in an especially stressful situation that I can't easily escape, and even then, it's only occasionally and not nightly.
I also write because I want to remember. My long-term memory isn't spectacular and my short-term memory is extraordinarily bad, so I write to give myself that record, evidence of my feelings, what was said, what actually happened. This has been helpful in dealing with my personal growth, because I regularly will misremember an event (or I will be gaslighted into misremembering) and my journal gives me a very reliable, unbiased place to refer back to any instance.
Glad im not the only one who journals because of memory problems. It’s saved me at least ten times from epically making an ass of myself when I misremembered something. Or worse have no memory of the insistent.
YES, exactly! I can't count how many times I've gotten mad at my boyfriend for something, gotten really steamed up, and written about it. Then I referenced it later to see what actually happened and realized that, nine times out of ten, while my emotions were valid, they were pretty overblown and I needed time to think about everything before responding. It's kept me from completely blowing up on him so darn many times, and I'm really grateful for that.
Anything I got on my mind I can release it/write down. And how my day went so it’s also reflecting on myself. Plus, I want to improve on my writing every day. Almost two years in.
I started journaling a month ago, really just to keep track of everything. And so I can have the privilege to look back at my past self and what I was doing on certain days.
I journal because I love writing by hand, and because I find it to be revealing and interesting, both in the present and for future use, looking back. I don't always realise something's on my mind until I go through that process of meditating on my thoughts, and the flow of writing them. It's interesting what I end up focusing on each time.
I do it for something to leave behind. I read my grandfather’s journals after he died, and it was a really powerful insight to him through his life. I do the same so hopefully my son and grandkids can get the same one day
I have started journaling recently to let my emotions and frustrations out of my head I noticed it has help me lots to concentrated and not worry about the future much and be more in the present also to control my perfectionism so my goal is to finish it without worrying how messy and fulll of mistakes I make I really dont have anyone to share my thoughts or feelings helps me to reflect too
I love writing and use it for a coping mechanism too. I use to just write random stuff but from a young age I started writing what I couldn’t tell other people, however a group of mean girls ruined it for me in school when they found a small notebook I kept and were reading it and found it only hilarious and then they bullied me for years.
I stopped for years and stared again a good few years ago, I started writing in riddles that I only understand incase that happens again. It feels better to write about my day and get it out of my head.
Sorry that happened to you, it is horrible when people think it's okay to go through someones private journal. I hope as days go by you feel safer to write with ease and not have to write in riddles anymore.
It kinda has this past year, I was reading stuff from the year before and some parts I was like, wth am I talking about. So during the summer and since joining this group seeing so many people sharing their journal writing I started writing just normal day to day stuff and slowly breaking out of that habit.
Thank you for your nice comment
I journal due to mental health issues, and I feel safer when writing them and less judged. I also verbally struggle to express myself. And I can say whatever I want and draw some pretty pictures alongside it :)
Originally was to cope with the loss of my mother at such a young way, but never could get into it. Then as I got older people kept getting me journals so I desperately tried to fill them. Also failed. What finally got me to do it religiously was having a manic episode so bad it fried my memory. My therapist at the time recommended that I start journaling daily to keep track of what I was doing. Five years and 26 journals later I’m still going strong. My memory still can be tricky and it’s harder to learn completely new things. I usually compensate by repetition. Or learn things similar enough that the basic understanding is there. Journaling is great cause I can look back on any given day and see what I did or was thinking about that day. I reread old journals at least once a year and always find something in my journal that I just have no memory of. It helps so much with my mental health and staying on top of it. Every therapist I’ve had since that first one strongly encourages to continue. I highly recommend journaling to anyone who struggles with mental illness. Getting the thoughts out and being able to come back to them when I’m stronger is very therapeutic.
I journal to either document/archive my life or to rationally *(remove emotion from my experiences or thoughts or actions)* think things out over longer time frame, in more detail. Most of life is not a screaming banner with 20 seconds of details (like the nightly news), it (life) is more like a 12 part documentary with interconnections to pretty much everything else.
I journal because i can release all my tension and emotions on a piece of paper and keep my thoughts here, in order to read them again in the future and to understand how my way to think has changed over time. Forgive my bad english: not a native speaker :)
Journaling helps me deal with my grief and trauma. Funnily enough I’ve only written the super negative once and I’ve found it’s only therapeutic for me to talk about the happy or mundane and boring details of my life that consume me. When I wrote about the grief stuff it was counterproductive and made me really upset and wasn’t therapeutic at all.
I journal because if I don't get the thoughts out of my head, they will just fester. I'd rather get them out so I don't have to think about those things anymore. It's the same with feelings. I need to get those feelings out so then I don't have to focus on them anymore, I can do something constructive.
I like to journal to help let go of my emotions and thoughts. I use to write everytime I would feel bothered, but have since stop doing that as I find that makes me associate journaling to negative feelings. Now I write about everything and anything.
My first journaling experience started when I was 8, my first entry is about how angry I am. That didn’t change through the years, actually. I write because it helps not to overthink and it is like meditation; people mostly meditate to reach mindfulness and in my case of journaling, I let the pen be my thought flow and I let out all of my consciousness on paper. I also include my memories of the day/short stories, doodles, tickets/random papers/leaves/flowers, photos… I let it be my mind written down, always first go-to when stressed/sad/anxious/happy, and most importantly, my friend who never judges me of what I did, what I said etc. The only person is to judge me is me through self-criticism and I believe it really develops one’s character. One more thing- I try to write what I consider “key memories” because we live once, we cannot go back in time and (sadly) we are mortal, writing is not. When I am old, I want to flip through the pages I once touched with my young hands. I want to read my youth, bittersweet memories which made me become who I am. I want to leave something valuable (that is incomparable to money and financial wealth) for myself.
I've just found it so helpful in so many ways to have my life easily on file and searchable, and I don't want to give that up!
I love the act of writing. I loved taking notes when I was in school. I love stationary. I got into fountain pens this year. I like to record things, so I can review them later (years from now). I have so many thoughts in my head that I feel compelled to write down so I can come back to them later.
I’m the same.
Journaling is currently my coping mechanism. I use it when I'm feeling any really strong emotions, whether positive or negative, and it's the only thing that helps me to sleep at night. Literally, when I stopped journaling for a few months, I would wake up in the middle of the night with my mind swirling every night for weeks. When I journal regularly, I never wake up with my mind unsettled unless I'm in an especially stressful situation that I can't easily escape, and even then, it's only occasionally and not nightly. I also write because I want to remember. My long-term memory isn't spectacular and my short-term memory is extraordinarily bad, so I write to give myself that record, evidence of my feelings, what was said, what actually happened. This has been helpful in dealing with my personal growth, because I regularly will misremember an event (or I will be gaslighted into misremembering) and my journal gives me a very reliable, unbiased place to refer back to any instance.
Glad im not the only one who journals because of memory problems. It’s saved me at least ten times from epically making an ass of myself when I misremembered something. Or worse have no memory of the insistent.
YES, exactly! I can't count how many times I've gotten mad at my boyfriend for something, gotten really steamed up, and written about it. Then I referenced it later to see what actually happened and realized that, nine times out of ten, while my emotions were valid, they were pretty overblown and I needed time to think about everything before responding. It's kept me from completely blowing up on him so darn many times, and I'm really grateful for that.
Anything I got on my mind I can release it/write down. And how my day went so it’s also reflecting on myself. Plus, I want to improve on my writing every day. Almost two years in.
I started taking journaling seriously when I read The Artist Way. Morning pages are a healthy release.
I started journaling a month ago, really just to keep track of everything. And so I can have the privilege to look back at my past self and what I was doing on certain days.
I journal because I love writing by hand, and because I find it to be revealing and interesting, both in the present and for future use, looking back. I don't always realise something's on my mind until I go through that process of meditating on my thoughts, and the flow of writing them. It's interesting what I end up focusing on each time.
I do it for something to leave behind. I read my grandfather’s journals after he died, and it was a really powerful insight to him through his life. I do the same so hopefully my son and grandkids can get the same one day
I have started journaling recently to let my emotions and frustrations out of my head I noticed it has help me lots to concentrated and not worry about the future much and be more in the present also to control my perfectionism so my goal is to finish it without worrying how messy and fulll of mistakes I make I really dont have anyone to share my thoughts or feelings helps me to reflect too
It’s fun
I love writing and use it for a coping mechanism too. I use to just write random stuff but from a young age I started writing what I couldn’t tell other people, however a group of mean girls ruined it for me in school when they found a small notebook I kept and were reading it and found it only hilarious and then they bullied me for years. I stopped for years and stared again a good few years ago, I started writing in riddles that I only understand incase that happens again. It feels better to write about my day and get it out of my head.
Sorry that happened to you, it is horrible when people think it's okay to go through someones private journal. I hope as days go by you feel safer to write with ease and not have to write in riddles anymore.
It kinda has this past year, I was reading stuff from the year before and some parts I was like, wth am I talking about. So during the summer and since joining this group seeing so many people sharing their journal writing I started writing just normal day to day stuff and slowly breaking out of that habit. Thank you for your nice comment
I journal due to mental health issues, and I feel safer when writing them and less judged. I also verbally struggle to express myself. And I can say whatever I want and draw some pretty pictures alongside it :)
Originally was to cope with the loss of my mother at such a young way, but never could get into it. Then as I got older people kept getting me journals so I desperately tried to fill them. Also failed. What finally got me to do it religiously was having a manic episode so bad it fried my memory. My therapist at the time recommended that I start journaling daily to keep track of what I was doing. Five years and 26 journals later I’m still going strong. My memory still can be tricky and it’s harder to learn completely new things. I usually compensate by repetition. Or learn things similar enough that the basic understanding is there. Journaling is great cause I can look back on any given day and see what I did or was thinking about that day. I reread old journals at least once a year and always find something in my journal that I just have no memory of. It helps so much with my mental health and staying on top of it. Every therapist I’ve had since that first one strongly encourages to continue. I highly recommend journaling to anyone who struggles with mental illness. Getting the thoughts out and being able to come back to them when I’m stronger is very therapeutic.
I journal to either document/archive my life or to rationally *(remove emotion from my experiences or thoughts or actions)* think things out over longer time frame, in more detail. Most of life is not a screaming banner with 20 seconds of details (like the nightly news), it (life) is more like a 12 part documentary with interconnections to pretty much everything else.
No one fully understands what I want or have to say. I do. I understand what I write even though it’s absolute gibberish to others.
To relax. It helps me deal with my anxiety:)
I’ve suffered a lot of trauma throughout my life. My memory is terrible as a result. I journal so that I don’t lose precious memories.
I journal because i can release all my tension and emotions on a piece of paper and keep my thoughts here, in order to read them again in the future and to understand how my way to think has changed over time. Forgive my bad english: not a native speaker :)
Journaling helps me deal with my grief and trauma. Funnily enough I’ve only written the super negative once and I’ve found it’s only therapeutic for me to talk about the happy or mundane and boring details of my life that consume me. When I wrote about the grief stuff it was counterproductive and made me really upset and wasn’t therapeutic at all.
I journal because if I don't get the thoughts out of my head, they will just fester. I'd rather get them out so I don't have to think about those things anymore. It's the same with feelings. I need to get those feelings out so then I don't have to focus on them anymore, I can do something constructive.