Journaling

Hey! So far I have had zero views on my first post. But that's ok. This blog is mainly for me to just vent. But do you want to know what another good way to get your feelings out? JOURNALING! Journaling is something that I try to do every single day. I sort of try to pick apart my brain, and decipher what things happened during that day. Or sometimes if an argument happened, or if I got in a fight with my 13 year old sister (lol) it's a good way to let your emotions go without mentally hurting another person. I find that with schizophrenia, it can be a great tool. Maybe you want to keep a page where you can write all of your symptoms down before you see your psychiatrist again. Or maybe something happened to you that you can't really explain to others, but you want to work it out. Journaling is ultimately a great way to store memories. I know that with my disorder, I can barely remember yesterday when it comes to what I did. Journaling everyday can be a great reminder as to what you did. And who knows? Maybe in 20, 30, 40 years you will want to look back and see the things that you did on a certain day. It is also a great form of therapy. Now, because I have random psychosis (where nothing triggers it, it just happens,) I don't go to a therapist. Because it's kind of like having a physical disorder, like a brain tumor. Trying to learn or talk about skills isn't going to help your tumor go away. You are still going to have a tumor. The only thing that you can do for it is what your doctor tells you to do (like taking medicine, having surgery, ect.). Nothing that a counselor is going to say is going to suppress my hallucinations. However, journaling is a great (basically free!) way to write down symptoms, and talk about it. Because I know that some of my symptoms are ones that I can't talk about with people, even though I still need to get it "out of my system". Which is perfectly okay.