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Originally Posted by Ganymede00
I feel dumb for even posting this but here goes nothing. Since I haven't been able to find a therapist that I've clicked with, I've been managing whatever symptoms I have on my own. I've done a bit of self care here and there (and it has helped a bit) but the one thing I have such trouble with is starting and keeping a diary. I know it would help tremendously to just write down what I'm feeling but I don't know, I just feel foolish. I fear that, as an adult, the act of keeping a diary is immature and self indulgent. I know that's not true but I have some long standing issues (guilt, embarrassment) with expressing how I feel. How can I stop thinking and feeling this way? Are there any adults out there that keep a diary and if so, does it help?
If anyone has any advice or words of wisdom, I would greatly appreciate it.
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Keeping a 'diary' does make one feel if not foolish, than immature. It's all wrapped up in the book some of us got as kids with a flimsy lock and key---my mother gave me one every year for xmas for years. I never used them.
For adults, a diary is more commonly called a journal....but of course, that's just a name. Seems easier for me to write in a 'journal'....
One way that might help, is instead of the whole 'dear diary' or the 'what I'm feeling now'.....is to 'address' it to a person, even an imaginary person. Treat it like a letter (remember snail mail?). It seems less silly because you're simply updating a friend (a close friend) with your thoughts etc.
And you are, actually. That friend is you.
Take care.
