I use to journal and it really did help me. Getting my feeling out on paper kept me sane for the most part. But then one of my family members wanted to be noisy so she took my journal, read it, and told all her little gossip buddies what I wrote. I was extremely upset. So now, I don't trust anybody and I don't write my feelings down anymore. And a couple weeks of me not writing in my journal and just keeping my feelings bottled up, I started to feel sick. Like mentally ill. She took the only thing that helped me deal with my feelings and I think that's so messed up! Look at me now.. I need serious help.