T wants me to start writing in a journal

Hi. I just finished my session with my T.
He wants me to start writing me feelings and everything in a journal. He said for me to write, and doodle/draw...
I don't know how. I don't know how to write my feelings without being all weird. Do I use "I" or speak from a different point of view?
agh. I am so confused...

Did any of you guys have to write a journal or had a journal to show T? How did that go?

Thank you all!

I actively journal.

Sometimes it's quotes that touched me/caught my eye. Sometimes it's me writing to T. Sometimes it's random drawings. Sometimes it's just about how I felt that day. Sometimes it's just a list of words that make no sense but it's what came when I put the pen to paper.

I usually share my journaling with T if I can't verbalize something or want T to understand a little more in depth. It's far from eloquent and put together - usually it looks like a mess of random ramblings but I find it to both be helpful to me and T finds it especially helpful when I do share them with her.

That looks like a first entry to me.

I do journal and switch journals every session. Sometimes it is quotes that are meaingful, sometimes it is directed at her like something that came up in session, clarification or something wanting to share but not comfortable within my own self to say face to face. I write in "I" form, feelings, thoughts, emotions, dreams, fears, even dispair. She will make comments on the side if I ask questions or at the end give feedback, encouraging words or suggestions. It does really help a lot since I get overwhelmed with emotions, thoughts and events and our sessions our limited to time frame. I also make it a point not to read what I wrote prior to turning it in because I may be inclined to tear it out and it defeats the reason I wrote it. Hope that helps. I know, for me anyway, I find it extremely helpful and it does help build our trust and focus on important things.

I journal a lot, both art and written. most of the time, I write out my reactions to the sessions. I often forget what we cover in session, so writing it all down helps me. Sometimes I write to T, or make an art journal entry with the intent of communicating soemthing specific to T, but other times I'm just writing or doing any art that "feels right". Sometimes the process of the art ends up being more relavent than what I produce...

I do most of my writing online (well, electronically, not necessarily online). I read through it and add to it if it's somethign specific T asked for. but it it's just something I want to communicate, I only go back to check for spelling and to make sure my autocorrect on the phone inserted the right word.

writing and art are both a lot easier for me than speaking. I'm learning to loosen up with both though. I tend to judge my stuff harshly and not want to give it to T...

I journal daily. I write from my perspective mostly. Sometimes I write to other people in my life and once I week I write to t. That entry gets emailed to her each week.

Sometimes I write about thoughts or emotions, sometimes I write about what I did during the day, and other times I just write random words.

There have been times where I was unsure of how to put my emotions into words and in those cases I get out some crayons and just scribble. They look like nothing to others, but to me speak volumes.

When I first started journaling it was mostly just point form thoughts. I've been doing it so long that my writing is far more eloquent now.

I journal. Sometimes I start it as 'dear journal' or dear T, or Dear God, or sometimes its nothing. A stream of consciousness, whatever comes to mind, pictures and words. No one else is going to read it, and theres no reason to lie or embellish. I like it.

I've been journaling since I started with this t, I actually keep two separate journals one is just for recording my dreams. I have a box full of spiral notebooks that I've filled in the past 3.5 years. Sometimes I write coherent things, sometimes pure stream of consciousness writing, sometimes I draw little doodles in it to try to show how I feel, sometimes I have written in big huge letters and lots of underlining when I've been upset, sometimes letters to t that I'll never give her, etc. I love journaling, have found it very helpful to my process. I have had days where all I have written was "I got nothing." I find it very helpful to look back at them every once in awhile it's nice to be able to actually see my progress in therapy - I should turn all of my journaling into a chart somehow showing my progress. Interesting.

Mine asked me to journal before and I did. It was fun because it was easier for me to be able to tell her what was going on

I used to journal, however it didn't help me... somehow writing everything down made me feel more depressed about my life and i blew things out of proportion. it might work for you though. just write whatever comes to mind.

I write, but for my own eyes only. I have a password protected document on my computer that I write in - not after every session, and sometimes not for long stretches of time, but from time to time. Sometimes long texts, sometimes a sentence or two. I also write letters to my T occasionally, which I bring with me to session, but those are separate from my journal, although I might use bits from the journal in the letter.

I find that writing can help me get my thoughts in order, and it can also help me track what has changed in me since I started therapy. Doodling and drawing are not things I do, and I would imagine that if it doesn't come naturally to you then it's not compulsory for you to do it. I think I would find it difficult to write a journal knowing, as I was writing, that I was to share it with my therapist - deciding afterwards that a particular bit of writing is relevant to share is a different thing.

My t has me journaling mainly to track my moods. He's trying to figure out a pattern. So I just list how I'm feeling and list a few things that are happening. Someday I elaborate but others it's more like. "depressed, bored". lol

I find I can be clearer in writing than in speaking sometimes - and can condense down more to the actual problem. I have never really free-written - I find the value for me is in the editing.

Journalling always helps me. Something about the writing process... that moment between the thought and the word I find to write it down... it melts away the ice blocks in my head.

I used to journal a lot. I would write down I how I felt and also drew a lot. I can't seem to get my head in that space to do it now.

I've journaled for years - I typically write in "I" statements, as I tend to just write what I'm thinking. I don't think in second or third person, so I don't write that way. I find that I'm more articulate in writing and it helps me when I have thoughts looping in my head. It's a way to get my thoughts out of my head and on to paper where I can look at them with a different viewpoint. What I write totally depends on my mood. Sometimes I'll start writing about just what happened that day, sometimes I'll write about something I've been thinking about, sometimes I'll be very philosophical. I've found that once I put pen to paper, the words just flow and my entry will sometimes morph from what I intended, but that's okay.

Sometimes I will share entries with my T, but not always. She always asks me to read them to her, so that I have complete control of the process.