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'Sometimes only paper will listen to you.'- Anonymous - Kmart Journal

This is the opening quote to the Kmart journal that I bought. So I thought I would do a blog on why keeping a journal can really help. Whether it be a blog that no one else see or a paper journal I personally feel that keeping a journal is great for ones mental health. Sometimes all you need to do is just get it out. And you may feel that there is absolutely no one that you could say the things you want to, so you put it in a journal. Hence, sometimes only paper will listen to you. 

I have kept mainly journals over my life, but I always seem to end up not finishing the book or my life gets too busy and I forget about writing in it and then I find it 5 years later and have already started probably another 2! LOL I have started a new journal in the past month and would you believe that I actually think that I may actually finish the journal!! Wowsers! And I do think that it has been really quite therapeutic and good for my mental health and my relationships with friends etc. I found that I was venting a lot of my frustrations to particular friends and then because I have BPD I was always worried that I was bombarding them or being overdramatic and that it was too much for them. So now instead of bombarding my friends with all of my problems, I am writing them in my journal and then it is like the problems are no where near as bad as I had initially perceived. Maybe just writing it down gets a lot of the vented up feelings so when I reflect back on what I have written, it doesn't seem so bad. Especially when I think of others and how bad some people really do have it in this world. 

Because I am doing this blog on journaling I thought I would look up the positive and the negative reasons for keeping a journal. They are as follows:

Positive: It can lift your mood. It can reduce symptoms such as depression and anxiety and improve memory. 

Negative: Having a journal may cause you to overthink in your life and can sometimes be too confronting about what you are feeling.

I was actually just speaking to my housemate about having a journal and how beneficial I feel they are. Her child is struggling at school with bullying and I suggested a journal for the child, so that she can get some of those feelings out because she doesn't like to express her feelings.

What do you think? Do you think having a journal is good for you?

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