Writing things down

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Alot of people say writing things down in journals help people gather their thoughts. It really doesn't help me. In fact it makes it really worse because i feel like I'm talking to a wall when I write down thoughts. I feel even more lonely. Does anyone else feel like that? And if so how do you deal?

Ive never even botherd with journaling in the fist place because to me it seems kind of useless. But some people find it useful. Some dont.

Well, I tend to prefer writing down my thoughts and feelings as I like to keep a record of the mess of a mind I have...but it's such a pain to do it constantly and sometimes it's hard to keep up so I tend to slack.

At the moment I do have a journal that I make notes of all the times my mother has been cruel to me as a way to expel my anger and repent on my suicidal thoughts, but I only really put stuff in it when I feel like it... sometimes I'm too furious during a moment to be able to sit still and write out that particular event.

I also had been keeping a dream journal but that became a thing where I was writing tons of paragraphs each day after I awoke because my dreams were so detailed and long.

Either way, I can get my thoughts and feelings out better through text most of the time, so I have no problem with it personally. Just gets tedious.

I'd say, do whatever best works for you. There are many ways to gather thoughts. Some do meditation for example.