Social Anxiety Support

Dipper · 08-18-2009, 08:33 PM

Any of you keep a journal or diary or whatever name you wanna give them?

I keep a journal, but I rarely write in it. Instead of writing about what happened everyday (which is not much in my life), I write my thoughts and feelings. It's a bit therapeutic I think. I also like the concept of being able to go back many, many years later and read the sort of stuff that I wrote in the past. I think that'd be interesting.

whiterabbit · 08-19-2009, 03:18 AM

I've kept a Word document diary since I was about 13. I attempted hand-writing one a couple of times but it was too much effort. Also writing it on the computer makes it easier to search through (Ctrl+F).

It's very embarrassing reading over stuff I wrote when I was younger. I was an idiot. Thank god I was quiet and never expressed any of my stupid thoughts in public.

It's also interesting to read through it and see how I went from occasionally self-deprecating, to more frequently self-deprecating, to quite often self-loathing, to pretty much every entry including some form of full-blown scathing self-hatred.

TorLin · 08-19-2009, 03:32 AM

i voted "yes"

Freedom2010 · 08-19-2009, 07:56 AM

I have been writing in one on and off pretty much my whole life. The past couple of months I have been writing in it everyday. I love writing in it. My life has been really crazy these past couple of months and I love writing rambling entries in there to help sort everything out in my mind. It feels so calming. I write so much that I have been going through full 70 page notebooks in two or three weeks!

Dempsey · 08-19-2009, 08:06 AM

I started one last week. I was very depressed and thought it was important to write down how I felt. I'm still writing it each day (even though I don't feel like it) just so I can read over it all in a month's time or something. It feels like I'm recording how I feel so my future self can evaluate it.

Isabel · 08-19-2009, 08:22 AM

I like the idea of keeping a journal but I'm never consistent when I do attempt to keep one.

Tangent · 08-19-2009, 11:30 AM

One of my blogs serves as a journal...or rather it did, but I don't update it on anything like a daily basis and it really is becoming more like a series of cathartic rants and occasional descriptions of feelings or events...so my true answer should be "sort of"...but I voted yes.

Duke of Prunes · 08-19-2009, 11:49 AM

No, in case somebody finds it and reads it.

quietgal · 08-19-2009, 12:59 PM

Yes, I've written in various pen-and-paper journals on and off since I was in junior high. In the past it's always been about emotions, usually about being sad or depressed or furious for one reason or another. In recent months I've tried to be more regular about it, recording day-to-day events, even if I have nothing more to say about them than a dry report of the facts. It's a good way to organize your thoughts and practice your handwriting (not that it really does all that much good in my case).

SilentLoner · 08-19-2009, 01:06 PM

I recently started an SA journal to record bad episodes.

Toad Licker · 08-19-2009, 09:23 PM

No I don't.

bowlingpins · 08-19-2009, 09:40 PM

I would like to but I am not conscientious enough I suppose, I start a journal but I don't maintain it.

yellowpaper · 08-19-2009, 10:54 PM

I voted no, but i wrote one entry in my "diary" (word document) the other day and I'm going to again, so maybe I do.

MissMay1977 · 08-20-2009, 02:55 AM

No, but I post on my visitor messages so that is kind of like my journal.

max4225 · 08-20-2009, 05:42 AM

Apparently I do. I forget sometimes, it's kind of sporadic.

PolarBear · 08-20-2009, 07:38 AM

Sweet, my post made it a straight up 50-50 split
15 Yes
15 No

Tangent · 08-20-2009, 07:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PolarBear

Sweet, my post made it a straight up 50-50 split
15 Yes
15 No

You better write that in your journal

bread6 · 08-28-2009, 08:12 PM

I've been keeping journals/diaries since I was 10. I think the longest I've gone without writing in one (since I started) was 5 months.

layitontheline · 08-28-2009, 08:39 PM

I did until a couple years ago. I put so much in it and it was really valuable to me, but then one day I got really depressed and shredded it

I'll never bother with one again.

Iced Soul · 08-28-2009, 08:56 PM

I've kept journals ever since I could remember and I still have them all in a little decorated box I have named 'My Life'.
Unfortunately, I left out of my room (at the time, my mom didn't allow locks on the doors) when I was 13 and 'My Life' was open and my sister read a few pages out of one of my journals to her friends and they laughed their heads off. I remember I didn't finish that year's journal. It's also made me buy journals with locks on them and I am always uncomfortable telling people things about myself, now, because of that.

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08-18-2009, 08:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dipper Status: PASTAMANIA BROTHER Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: California Gender: Male Age: 24 Posts: 285	Keep a journal/diary? Any of you keep a journal or diary or whatever name you wanna give them? I keep a journal, but I rarely write in it. Instead of writing about what happened everyday (which is not much in my life), I write my thoughts and feelings. It's a bit therapeutic I think. I also like the concept of being able to go back many, many years later and read the sort of stuff that I wrote in the past. I think that'd be interesting.

08-19-2009, 03:32 AM	#3 (permalink)
TorLin Status: MayTheForceBeWithYou Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: California Gender: Male Posts: 17,058	i voted "yes" __________________ MTFBWU (May The Force Be With You) - TORLIN AIM, MSN, YIM: T0RL1N Skype: Tor_Lin Visit me at; ToryLing.com \| LivingAnxious \| Facebook \| Myspace \| Last.fm

08-19-2009, 07:56 AM	#4 (permalink)
Freedom2010 Status: breaking free Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Here, there, and eveywhere Gender: Female Posts: 2,214	I have been writing in one on and off pretty much my whole life. The past couple of months I have been writing in it everyday. I love writing in it. My life has been really crazy these past couple of months and I love writing rambling entries in there to help sort everything out in my mind. It feels so calming. I write so much that I have been going through full 70 page notebooks in two or three weeks! __________________ "Live right now- just be yourself. Doesn't matter if it's good enough for someone else." - Jimmy Eat World

08-19-2009, 11:30 AM	#7 (permalink)
Tangent Status: Cynical Misanthrope Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: N.E. England Gender: Male Age: 18 Posts: 301	One of my blogs serves as a journal...or rather it did, but I don't update it on anything like a daily basis and it really is becoming more like a series of cathartic rants and occasional descriptions of feelings or events...so my true answer should be "sort of"...but I voted yes. __________________ http://journalofasadact.blogspot.com/ - The daily goings on of a socially anxious dyspraxic pariah. http://asininerants.blogspot.com/ - The social, political, religious and miscellaneous musings of the above. Facebook - Add me!

08-19-2009, 03:18 AM	#2 (permalink)
whiterabbit Status: scum Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: England Gender: Female Age: 23 Posts: 803	I've kept a Word document diary since I was about 13. I attempted hand-writing one a couple of times but it was too much effort. Also writing it on the computer makes it easier to search through (Ctrl+F). It's very embarrassing reading over stuff I wrote when I was younger. I was an idiot. Thank god I was quiet and never expressed any of my stupid thoughts in public. It's also interesting to read through it and see how I went from occasionally self-deprecating, to more frequently self-deprecating, to quite often self-loathing, to pretty much every entry including some form of full-blown scathing self-hatred.

08-19-2009, 08:06 AM	#5 (permalink)
Dempsey Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Sydney Australia Gender: Male Age: 21 Posts: 635	I started one last week. I was very depressed and thought it was important to write down how I felt. I'm still writing it each day (even though I don't feel like it) just so I can read over it all in a month's time or something. It feels like I'm recording how I feel so my future self can evaluate it.

08-19-2009, 08:22 AM	#6 (permalink)
Isabel Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: New York Gender: Female Posts: 38	I like the idea of keeping a journal but I'm never consistent when I do attempt to keep one.

08-19-2009, 11:49 AM	#8 (permalink)
Duke of Prunes Status: A prune isn't a vegetable Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: England Gender: Male Age: 18 Posts: 208	No, in case somebody finds it and reads it.

08-19-2009, 12:59 PM	#9 (permalink)
quietgal Status: SAS Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: New Jersey Gender: Female Age: 23 Posts: 586	Yes, I've written in various pen-and-paper journals on and off since I was in junior high. In the past it's always been about emotions, usually about being sad or depressed or furious for one reason or another. In recent months I've tried to be more regular about it, recording day-to-day events, even if I have nothing more to say about them than a dry report of the facts. It's a good way to organize your thoughts and practice your handwriting (not that it really does all that much good in my case). __________________ The only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. SuperBetter! A multi-player way to beat SA

08-19-2009, 01:06 PM	#10 (permalink)
SilentLoner Status: Otaku Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Lost in thought, though occasionally I may be located at an anime convention. Gender: Female Age: 22 Posts: 2,452	I recently started an SA journal to record bad episodes. __________________ "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” -Plato "When a cold wind blows it chills you - chills you to the bone. But there's nothing in nature that freezes your heart like years of being alone." OTAKU UNITE! “We honor Dr. Tiller’s legacy of service to women.” Dr. George Tiller 1941 -2009 Memorial Web Page http://www.iamdrtiller.com/ http://www.remembertiller.com/

08-19-2009, 09:23 PM	#11 (permalink)
Toad Licker Status: Broken Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: A Fruitloop Daydream Gender: Male Age: 44 Posts: 29,630	No I don't. __________________ All will wither, go to sleep The ones you love you may not keep All you touch will fall apart The dreams you kill will break your heart There's no mercy, there's no rest The void will scream within your chest No one knows and no one will So leave this place that makes you Ill - Madder Mortem

08-19-2009, 09:40 PM	#12 (permalink)
bowlingpins Status: Temporarily Banned Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 557	I would like to but I am not conscientious enough I suppose, I start a journal but I don't maintain it.

08-19-2009, 10:54 PM	#13 (permalink)
yellowpaper Status: SAS Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Gender: Female Age: 20 Posts: 696	I voted no, but i wrote one entry in my "diary" (word document) the other day and I'm going to again, so maybe I do.

08-20-2009, 02:55 AM	#14 (permalink)
MissMay1977 Status: Freakin Beautiful Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Indiana Gender: Female Age: 32 Posts: 1,087	No, but I post on my visitor messages so that is kind of like my journal. __________________ <@_@> la la laaaaaaa

08-20-2009, 05:42 AM	#15 (permalink)
max4225 Status: SAS Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Great Basin Desert by lilac bushes Gender: Male Posts: 695	Apparently I do. I forget sometimes, it's kind of sporadic.

08-20-2009, 07:38 AM	#16 (permalink)
PolarBear Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: London, Ontario Gender: Male Age: 22 Posts: 122	Sweet, my post made it a straight up 50-50 split 15 Yes 15 No

08-28-2009, 08:12 PM	#18 (permalink)
bread6 Status: sleep deprived Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Alabama, USA Gender: Female Age: 22 Posts: 13	I've been keeping journals/diaries since I was 10. I think the longest I've gone without writing in one (since I started) was 5 months.

08-28-2009, 08:39 PM	#19 (permalink)
layitontheline Status: SAS Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Gender: Female Age: 20 Posts: 320	I did until a couple years ago. I put so much in it and it was really valuable to me, but then one day I got really depressed and shredded it I'll never bother with one again.

08-28-2009, 08:56 PM	#20 (permalink)
Iced Soul Status: Dancing on Rainbows Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Calilalaland Gender: Female Age: 21 Posts: 1,775	I've kept journals ever since I could remember and I still have them all in a little decorated box I have named 'My Life'. Unfortunately, I left out of my room (at the time, my mom didn't allow locks on the doors) when I was 13 and 'My Life' was open and my sister read a few pages out of one of my journals to her friends and they laughed their heads off. I remember I didn't finish that year's journal. It's also made me buy journals with locks on them and I am always uncomfortable telling people things about myself, now, because of that. __________________ I scraped my knees while I was praying And found a demon in my safest haven. Seems like, it's getting harder to believe in anything Than just to get lost in all my selfish thoughts. I wanna know what it'd be like To find perfection in my pride To see nothing in the light Just turn it off In all my spite, in all my spite, I'll turn it off. - Turn It Off - Paramore http://twitter.com/MissEerie