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i am having trouble keeping a journal. got a notebook for my car, keep a writing tablet by my bed. i guess dealing with depression and anxiety for so long makes it hard to recognize when i am having these symptons. what do i write. i know i made a big step yesterday cause i did write down some thoughts. it seems each morning i have pretty good intentions to have a positive day, but around mid afternoon i feel i have to go home, stop and get a 6 pack and go home a veg out. I wrote this down but i am trying to think what i am telling myself. also had a girl i just met, thought i might want to take out again tell me yesterday she wanted to go back with her old boyfriend. wasnt by her wanting to go back with him, but felt a little dejected, i guess i need to tell myself i am a good person and will find someone someday. but now that i think about it, i guess i will get better at it the more i try it. Thanks for listening, hope all have a great day

I have noticed that I don't make the time to write in a journal. Seems so hard and the physical act of writing is a pain. So I just started putting my journal on my computer in Word. Makes it so much easier to write fast and to go back and edit and add things that I missed. So, I've gotten in the habit of writing for about ten minutes every evening. I tell about my day almost like it's a travelogue, so I need to put more thought into how I'm "feeling" and not what I did that day. But I just started so I'll cut myself some slack. I know that Lucinda says to carry around a notebook for our negative thoughts, but I'm just too busy at work to even consider that. Plus, I would be mortified if someone saw me doing it or found my negative thoughts journal. Gotta work on identifying the negative thoughts more too since I don't recognize them. I just know I feel stressed out and get anxious because of the physical muscle tension. I don't actually "hear" my negative thoughts yet. Good luck to you!

I was always told that writting was very helpfull, but it was hard for me also exspecially the one by my bed.. I have a huge problems with nightmairs and i kept thinking the last thing I want to do is remember them what if it will make me dream about it again!! I was never into poetry but one day i sat down and let my pain spill out onto the paper in a poem... It has become my way to release a little of what has built up inside. Keep up the good work as hard as it seems at first eventually you will find a creative out... It might even be painting or drawing and not writting!! Keep looking up best of wishes!!

the hardest thing was starting. this morning it was raining, got up, forced myself to do some yoga stretches and then laid done back in bed. i had to tell myself i was going thru a little anxiety and was writing down what i was feeling. i am also trying to ween myself of caffeine and have been drinking half caff/half decaf. it might have been the coffee that accelerated the anxiety. i am trying to be more in tune with how i feel. maybe i can see somewhat of a tunnel out there in the future let alone the light