Do you journal?

Sort of, I keep a gratitude journal. On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I add an entry and have been doing it since late 2015.

It's helped me be more appreciative of what I already have and be satisfied with those things instead of always wanting more and more. My mentally before was "I'll be happy when", now my mentally is "I wake up happy and do what it takes to defend that mental state." I find my life feels a lot better now even though you could argue it's about the same.

I mean my kids are all now adults and my relationship with my wife is the best it's ever been and work is amazing and all. But I think for the most part those are going well because I'm going well, not the other way around.

But that's just me.

I do. Not as often as I'd like sometimes. I treat it like I'm writing a letter to someone who doesn't exist. It helps me vent whatever I've been struggling with, or take some pride in the things that have gone right for me. I feel weird talking about stuff like that with friends and family, so this gives me an empty void to talk into without worry of judgement. I started doing it a while ago after going through some therapy and it's been the one thing that's actually helped post-therapy. My journal lives in a Linux partition on my main PC through an encrypted file that has a different password than any I use elsewhere. No one that has access to that computer can navigate how I have Linux set up, nor would they know how to go through the terminal to decrypt the file. These protections are in place to ensure that no one sees anything they shouldn't. If you do journal, I recommend taking similar precautions, but I'm also not mentally well and paranoid to boot, so grain of salt and all that

!cascualconversations@lemmy.world is where I've started to do little journals, all to give lemmy some content

Neat to see a snapshot of everyones day in the daily post

I keep a daily journal whenever I go on vacations (especially trips abroad). While I do take photos throughout the trips, I'm not taking them constantly. So lots of little fun/interesting experiences pop up that aren't captured.

My memory isn't the best either, so when I think back on trips I tend to remember the big things versus the little ones. Journaling at the end of the day or in the morning helps me remember the little things. Also, what I was thinking throughout it all. Like being stranded in Rottenburg ob der Tauber after my train was cancelled. Or when a little dog in the park did a front foot handstand and peed backwards. I couldn't get my phone out in time, but I wrote that down ASAP.

When I'm feeling frustrated or anxious I try to just write what I'm feeling and work through it. Sometimes that's affirmations (I am good enough, I am safe and loved, etc) and sometimes it's just brainstorming for how to solve something. I find just getting it out of my head and onto paper at least lets me more effectively get a grasp on what's bothering me even if it doesn't fix anything.

Writing things down also helps me realize that sometimes I'm just being unreasonable, haha.

I don't really go back and read most of it, it's more like scratch paper for my brain.

I’ve started journaling recently to proces some major events for myself. I find that it helps me quiet the thoughts that would otherwise continue to grind through my head.
Not sure how long I’ll be able to keep it up. But on the other hand, if I stop it might mean that it has served its purpose and I no longer need it.

No.

I am currently using stoic. — day 440, so it seems it is over a year now.

I started using it because when I was like 14-17 I remember doing something like that in notebooks, writing down some ideas, sometimes dreams and whatnot. Later I lost them somehow and lately was wondering what would be there if I would ever find them..

There is this neat feature in stoic that shows you under the latest note what you wrote one month ago. There is much more to this app, but it is mostly a journal for me.