About a year ago, I started keeping a therapy diary, parallel to my basic diary. It was basically a place to rant, to describe what I was angry about, or what I hated about myself, and to describe things I wanted to fix... And I didn't really know what I was doing, but I thought it might be helpful. And the idea was, I would go back to see what things I needed to work on. But that never really happened -- I think just having written it helped a lot, and ideas I needed to think about came back to mind later, and the self-hating rants mostly just disappeared. So that turned out fairly well.
My Feelings Filter works pretty well for me in a similar way, for the ranting. As does my general journal for less emotional ranting.
In my experience just getting things out of your head helps a lot when it comes to straightening out my thought processes. The process of getting my thoughts into some kind of order to write them down takes an amorphous blob of incoherence and helps me really see it clearly.
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My Feelings Filter works pretty well for me in a similar way, for the ranting. As does my general journal for less emotional ranting.
In my experience just getting things out of your head helps a lot when it comes to straightening out my thought processes. The process of getting my thoughts into some kind of order to write them down takes an amorphous blob of incoherence and helps me really see it clearly.
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