Recently I’ve started writing in a journal, I’m curious as to who else has a journal they keep so they can record their feelings and experiences.
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If I kept a journal and I was honest, it could be used against me. I’m scared to write my real thoughts and perceptions down.
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I used to keep a journal, wrote what time I took my meds etc. It improves your progress.
I write in a journal everyday - It is in calender form, I log in how I am feeling and which meds and dose I am taking, how I am doing, what I did for the day etc… 
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I had to start keeping a journal about when I do things because I can’t remember that for some reason. For example, I can’t remember if I did a certain thing three days ago, or three weeks ago. It turns into a major problem, but the journal has been very helpful.
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If they are bad than you should write them down so they know what to help you with. Thats what I’m doing this for.
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I you are having some bad stuff happen to you that would be hard to explain to your doctor you could write it down and just show him. I used to do this, because I suck at speaking. If you are uncomfortable about it I suppose you could just ask for it back and throw it out. I always got my journal back when my doctor had me keep one about my symptoms. Just a thought.
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I don’t. I used to keep diaries when I was a teen, but burned them because the bad times seemed multiplied every time I re-read my entries about them, which I couldn’t resist doing. But my sister keeps journals and says they’re helpful to her in that they help her focus her thoughts / feelings.
I do not keep a journal of my illness. But I like to read a lot, and I keep a commonplace book, to journal my reading. This was common practice from the renaissance times until as late as the 19th century. Many commonplace books have been published, and many commonplace books from famous people have been put in museums. For more information just google commonplace book
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I kept a journal for years, I find it very therapeutic when I have no one to talk to.
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Kept one since 1995 I think it is. Find it extremely helpful. Hardest part is starting and long after you started. Not going over the past entries and reading it back
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I have kept journals in the past. Once, I wrote daily for over a year. In the end, I destroyed them all. I had written things when angry or symptomatic that I wouldn’t want family members to read. I also didn’t like the idea of my words being used against me if they were found. There was also the embarrassment and disturbing feelings I felt looking back over my ramblings.
I have three journals, two are full and one is almost there. Most times I have racing thoughts that make it difficult to write with a pen, so I created an e-mail account and write journal entries and send them to myself. Typing allows you to get your thoughts out faster than writing.
Take care!
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I’ve kept many journals from way back. It’s one of my obsessive habits that I’ve been trying to break.
I almost think I have hypergraphia due to the amount of journals, the category, how detailed they get. I still have them all.
I used to worry a lot about family getting a hold of them, but I just have to struggle with that because I just can’t seem to burn them.
I’ve been trying to get the courage to burn them, but they are also my memory and my gauge on how far I’ve come.
Lately I just don’t have the time to spend hours and hours writing. I do when there is something I have to get out of my head or it will keep me up. But I really think that I’m starting to write in a less obsessive mind set.
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I do not keep any journals, I used to keep and then I maintained paper notebooks, intelligence information and intelligence knowledge years ago, but I stopped doing so. It was my hobby and it actually generated 30 paper notebooks. Journals are fun, but what I discovered that I wrote all kinds of ■■■■ in some journals, but these notebooks are something I value a lot. I maintained these from 1999 to 2008, early 10 years and these contain all kinds of information. Would be fun to publish these on the net and see what would happen if anything.
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I journal sporadically when I am frantic. I get one about half filled, assume my husband is going to use it to take my children from me and burn it… But it is useful. I write all the crazy in my head and my husband reads it while I sleep to make sure he knows whether or not he needs to stay home from work.
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It took a VERY long time to get to where we are today. I love him and wouldn’t be alive without him. He deserves my inner thoughts even the horrible ones.
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