Hey guys,

Keeping a journal where you can register mood swings, triggers, fears and also good things seems to be something largely recommended as a coping technique. But how many of you have trouble with it?

Writing soothes me, but I'm just so scared to write a journal. I'm afraid people will be reading it over my shoulder at public places, or that I can forget it somewhere and someone else will find, or even that a family member could open and read it by accident.

I also don't feel confortable to write about myself in my mother language. All my attempts to make entries were made in other languages so I can feel like other people won't read it (at least, not so easily and not most of them) , but I feel pathetic for doing this, it sounds so stupid. I've done it before, but ended up tearing/burning the pages when I read it again months later. :/

Making personal notes in first person seems impossible for me too. My personal, journal-like writing is weird and distant. This is frustrating as hell because writing is something I try to believe I'm good at.