Hey hi!

Journaling to me is a personal thing....it's for me. I write all the time but the Others could care less. They might make an attempt, but it's not their thing. So journaling is just a "you" thing. Your thoughts, ideas, feelings....

I know when I do read what Others write, I just don't feel the connection so I just disregard it. They can care less. But, if they cared....that opens a platform where we can start unification and recovery.

By journaling, you can record your feelings, insight, situations, and then hopefully single out the trigger that causes you to dissociate. For me it's easy, Everything causes me to dissociate which I've concluded to be more a brain abnormality over the many years of abuse I've wasn't able to deal with.

I can see my triggers now, but they just don't go away, not like addiction triggers...these go deeper.

We as humans live in the now and tend to forget the past, so writing it down makes it more solid and something to be able to go back to, so yes, writing it down is the only way to catch you at the moment from your soul to share with the future. It's like a snapshot of your being at that time. It's a window to your yesterself.

It's the best thing that you can do to help you.