Do You Keep A Journal?

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Do you keep a personal journal in which you write/type about your thoughts, feelings, and/or experiences?

How do you feel about the journal? Is it helpful?

Not usually, but I've been working on a journal-type project over the last seven months or so. It's very therapeutical in a lot of ways. For instance, if I've had a bad day or been struggling with something, writing about it works wonders for my mood.

I should start a new blog.
So far I haven't.
I used to have a blog but let it go.
The topics were a combination of fine art photography, my travels and weird adventures / coincidences, and ramblings in the winter about being the Queen of Narnia.
Now I paint in my spare time.

Only on a trip (holiday) to somewhere different.

My therapist had me for a while… I stopped because it wasn’t helpful, but mostly because she wanted to spend the entire session discussing my journal.

I actually have a few of them that have accumulated over the years but I update them in sporadic bursts which can vary dramatically in range, time wise; I do find it mildly interesting to go through them and read my ramblings over the years and the gradual change in them over the years, but I don't do it too often, that and update them.

I used to when I was younger and going through a rough time, but I haven't in years. Maybe I should again.

i'm autistic so i don't do anything, hence there is no point.

Yes, I've written a daily entry since 1973. I've found it enormously helpful both in the immediate instance of a cathartic expression of my experiences and reactions and thoughts, and also it helps to read back over some things to get a perspective on things.

Sometimes I don't even have a handle on exactly what I'm feeling about something that happened within a day, until I start writing my diary entry and I suddenly discover all these emotions. It's a useful discovery tool and catharsis.

Best thing I have done as an adult. Started in 1990. Inspired by a visit to an old Meeting house in wales caled "The pales" and buying a book called, I think, Diary of a countryman, the journal of a member of that meeting in the 19th Century, the book reprinted a year's worth of entries.

Kept it Daily till around 2001, when the frequency fell off somewhat. Still use it.

basically it is the tool I have used for working out a Lot of personal stuff, interpersonal stuff, the sort of things I don't find intuityive, BUT, given a ood session writing thoughts doesn, sometimes actual question and answer sessions with myself I have been able to crack a fair few intractable situations, in many cases better than Neurotypicals also involved because of the thinking and preparation working things out in the journal gave me.

Most recently it was the place I reviewed a fair bit of life history which had recurring themes pointing towards being on the spectrum, and it proved a useful tool in a two year process leading to being assessed and indeed identified as Autistic.

No I have dyslexia & dysgraphia. I can barely ready my own handwriting, my hand hurts after writing abit, & it takes me a long time to type posts on forums or to text.

No, I never have. It never made much sense to me honestly to write something nobody would ever read and I don't need a written account of my own life. What I post on here is probably as close to a journal as I have written.

I had one from about a year ago to maybe 2-3 years ago. Destroyed and gone now. I've been thinking about getting a new journal. Mostly just doodles.