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Old Nov 28, 2013, 08:33 AM
Daeva Daeva is offline
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Originally Posted by wills11 View Post
I'm a big writer. Ever since I was a little kid I've always had a pen to paper and ideas running through my head. But I've only recently begun "emotional" journaling.

PROBLEM #1:
- I HAVE to be super organized. If my personal environment is chaotic - I'm internally chaotic. (This doesn't mean alphabetization or color chronology. Just an order.) I'm also ADHD so I have collections of notebooks that are unfinished. "Diary entries," poetry, musings, from several years. It's stressing me out what to do with these. Should I rip the pages out and tape them all into a book chronologically since they're dated and then just start a new book?

PROBLEM 2:
Because of the variety of things I write, I'm also thinking it might be more beneficial to have separate notebooks for things: poetry, musings, emotional writing, etc. That way if I want to find something specific later on I'll know where to look, instead of sifting through a book which includes all of those chronologically.

PROBLEM 3:
I've been waking up with terrible anxiety. So I've created a book where I write down my immediate emotions and thoughts to get it out of my system and acknowledge it and then hopefully start the day better. I've been doing that at night now too. This book is slowly becoming an emotional journal instead of a "get these stupid worries upon sleeping and waking out of my head" book. Maybe I should just keep a smaller book on the nightstand and try to keep it in a list format?

SUGGESTIONS/PROBLEM 4:
I read some therapy journaling sites for ideas. I'm thinking about buying a sectioned/divided off notebook and making sections for each one (i.e. emotional writing, poetry, musings, LETTERS I WON'T SEND PEOPLE, etc.) and then date it that way.
I'm curious as to ways you all write. Some ideas I got from the sites were to make pages for lists to go and fill in whenever it strikes you, like a prompt: I worry that, what if, I hate that, I love, I feel proud, If I knew I wouldn't fail, Before I die, etc.
So I journal alot and I have a personal journal to do my emotional moments like you do, I have a separate journal for things I find of interest/help to my therapy/mental well-being (Like notes on psych books i read, meditation practices etc, I research alot for my own interest). Then I write poetry so I have a separate journal for that.

Separate journals can be a good thing just make sure you don't lose them. Often times I bring my emotional journal with me everywhere's I go but when I forget I write an entry on a piece of paper and take the time later to copy into my journal.