A few years ago, back when DH started showing signs of a mental health problem, I began journaling as a way of dealing with my feelings.

I now have a lot of little journals built up. Most of what is in them is me venting frustration with our personal situation, but I also use the journals to make notes about strange or noteworthy things that DH does- part of a pattern watching process if you will. Because they do allow me to look back so effectively, I don't want to get rid of them, however there are a lot of them and I worry about keeping them private at this point.

I've been thinking about transcribing them to a file on my private cloud and then destroying the hard copies.

Anyhow, can anyone see any reason why it would be a bad idea to destroy the original journals? I can't see a place where they would be used for any sort of documentation, but because they do seem to relate to a significant series of events and are the documentation of a time line of mental health issues, I feel a little strange about just destroying them without thinking it through.

Thoughts?