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the only journal i keep is here and its open for all to read and comment on. It has helped a lot i do recommend it. great way of getting support too

I'm going to try and keep a journal here and see if it helps... I tried keeping a diary before but I always felt alone which made me even more depressed and in turn go me to binge even more...

I've kept a journal since I was 12 or 13. First in longhand and then in time I graduated to online. In the beginning, journals were like, "Oh I love Billy." Eventually they became a place for every dark thought and impulse I feel. My journal is utterly for me now, and I am true to myself. I found that writing cryptic messages did nothing but further my mental confusion, especially when I would stumble upon the entry years later. I write nearly everyday, or sometimes several times, editing my entry over and over. I write the mundane crap, because sometimes it really means something later.

I also have kept a poetry journal since I was around 15. I started out online, and it's progressed mostly to longhand as it allows freedom in stanza set-up.

Both are honest-to-goodness pure me. I've been chided about not "replying" to comments on my journal here, or lashing out when someone debates my opinion in my journal entry. It's MY journal, no one else's, so why should I cater to my readers? Sure, maybe I should private it, but I also find comfort (like most) in advice, and typically quietly absorb its meaning.

i've been like you and never been able to keep up writing in a journal because i found i boring. now as part of my recovery i keep one and just write in it whenever i feel alone or really want to say something and i find it calms me down a lot. i say all of my feelings and vent all my frustrations and talk not only about my ED but just whatever pops into my head. i don't want to read it now, i'm saving it for when i'm well so i can see how far i've come

Writing is good for you on a number of levels. Keeping all of your writings in a central location helps you to keep track of it. That basically amounts to a journal. In your journal you can write about any and everything. Thoughts in the mind can be jumbled. When you put it on paper it illustrates it for you and bring clarity to it. It also documents it for you. That helps you to track yourself later down the road. When you go back and look at something you see where you started at and how far you have come or have not. It helps you to see you. For you to really be you though you have to be able to put it some place where you feel that others can not access it. I write some stuff out on MS Word and then save it as a draft in an email account. If someone in cyber space does manage to access it they can not connect it with a person. They have no idea who I am.

I do keep a journal, I have tons of journals since 1995. There is time skipped. Sometimes I would write everyday, then sometimes just when I was depressed. I am very honest, they are my journals, why would I try to lie to myself, and know that I am lying. I absolutely read back at them, and it is very helpful. I try and keep up with them now as much as possible. I don't do as well with food journals. I do that seperately. I hate doing those b/c it is boring and I don't like to see. But I have been doing the food journal pretty good since the beginning of august and I do think that although I find it annoying, it is also helpful. I don't write how I feel when I am eating certain things though, which I should.

i have kept a journal for years and ive always found it really helpful. im always honest in it, which has been my downfall in the past when my mum has found it and read it. In the end I just got very good at hiding it. Writing it kept me sane when I was being bullied, and also on the psych ward. So I dont know what i would do without it. I re-read what I've written at a later point and reflect on it which can be helpful. I'd recommend it to anyone.