Keeping diaries

I love to write my diaries and notebook entries. I use a pen and paper, somehow I just like to see my handwriting. I just finished another paper notebook. Do you keep journals or diaries?

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Yup occasionally it helps a lot to be honest. Helps me organize my thoughts

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Yes tons and tons. I have boxes full of diaries. I actually never wrote about my symptoms, only normal life stuff, until one of my voices suggested I do so. It helped me a lot.

It does not help me to go back and read my old writings though. Can set me off very badly. So I just keep them in my closet.

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Good for you! I used to keep a diary everyday. I haven’t for a long time but I want to get back into it.

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i dont have a journal. i do write personal stuff every day in a book, though its not much about logging events and stuff. its just a fun book to write stories in.

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I have not been able to sleep well tonight and so I started another paper diary/notebook and I have already written five pages more. I think it is good for one’s mind to write down things, thoughts, experiences, symptoms or anything comes to one’s mind.

Now I am having coffee and I do not expect to sleep tonight, but then I can write my notebook entries.

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Yes. I keep a prayer journal. I’ve been keeping it for the last fourteen years. Gd talks to me in it and I talk back to Him in it. I pray in it every single morning. It’s called Lectio Divina.

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I suppose that is Latin meaning Divine Lessons or something?

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It means Divine Reading, I think. Either that or Divine Lecture.

I checked with Google Translator … it is Divine Reading.

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Thank you, @mjseu.

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I used to do a lot of writing about my theories. I think about them less now after meds. I an thinking that’s a bad thing.

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@Sardonic, What’s a bad thing? Your theories? Or thinking about them less?

Thinking about my theories less @SkinnyMe

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Have you considered that your theories may be delusions since you think about them less after taking meds @Sardonic ?

this forum is my diary…all my personal stuff is on here if anyone wanted to read about me…it doesn’t bother me. this site has helped me tremendously.

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That’s what my mom said. It’s hard for me to accept that, though I suppose it’s possible. I feel like this is part of a plot to destroy me.

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What is part of a plot to destroy you? Your meds?

Yes. I think they are part of the system’s plot to destroy individual/complex thought. I am told this is a delusion though. It was/is one of my theories.

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Yes, the meds are meant to destroy your delusions. Your theories are probably delusions and the meds are meant to destroy them.

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