I don't want to but I have to

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

that is what I am doing I have word open as we speak and writing down what is stressing me

make SURE you mention all of us!!!

spell our name right!

heck, maybe your counselor should post here.

she would have a field day with some of us!

good luck!

 

[luvpooh]

I called shenanigans the other day...I'm calling it again.
This time I am doing it in the hopes that it truly is, because if it isn't, then I am truly scared...or as was said in the classic, Ferris Bueller, "I weep for the future."

 

[quasar4legs]

Hope everything works out for you.

 

[TDC Nala]

Never write anything online that you have a problem with the entire world reading.

 

[Mermaid02]

As far as deleting old posts- remember, once somebody has quoted you- YOU can not delete it. We call that Rule #1 around here...........

 

[brittanyherndon]

As far as deleting old posts- remember, once somebody has quoted you- YOU can not delete it. We call that Rule #1 around here...........

Txs I am learning a lot abot the rules on disboards and that is great in my book cuse I am a Disboard nut txs to the great friends I have mad on here

 

[LoraJ]

What grade are you in?

Do you have a teacher at school that can give you tops on how to keep a journal?

 

[brittanyherndon]

What grade are you in?

Do you have a teacher at school that can give you tops on how to keep a journal?

I am in college belive it or not never had to keep a journal before belive it or not. It might have to do with I was in all ex ed classes. Which should not be a surprise to most of you who have seen my spelling

 

[LoraJ]

Well, I think just getting some of your thoughts down in Word is a good start. Just bring whatever you wrote to your counselor tomorrow. It does not have to be a lot. Just something.

If something is upsetting you, write it out in Word and after you have written out, it may make you feel better. In most cases, it would be better than writing it on a public forum where everyone in the world can see it.

Good Luck!

 

[brittanyherndon]

Well, I think just getting some of your thoughts down in Word is a good start. Just bring whatever you wrote to your counselor tomorrow. It does not have to be a lot. Just something.

If something is upsetting you, write it out in Word and after you have written out, it may make you feel better. In most cases, it would be better than writing it on a public forum where everyone in the world can see it.

Good Luck!

Thank you for your encurangment

 

[alexandria674]

I have kept a journal for several years, it not only is a good outlet for feelings and maybe even to help figure out things, but also a journal does help with spelling and grammar.

 

[locolala]

I would recommend you put a password on your computer journal, that way you can be sure that nobody reads it. I've had journalling recommended to me by therapists in the past but I've never had one require it. The only that that was "required" was that I didn't self injure, and if I did I would be immediately hospitalized. I would let your therapist know that you really don't want to journal, maybe they can come up with something more suited to you, perhaps drawing or something along those lines.

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

If this is an "assignment" for your counselor, it's probably not best to be flipping back and forth between Word and the DIS. It's probably best to turn off the tv, music, computer, etc. and get a fun pen or pencil and some blank paper and just write in a stream of consciousness (also known as a "brain dump" or "free write"), where you just write whatever comes to you without thinking. This helps draw out the feelings that are buried a little bit. If you keep interrupting/distracting yourself, you won't get to that point and they will stay buried.

And I agree with PPs who say you're doing this for yourself. Avoiding the issue won't make it go away. Whatever the issue is will eat at you from the inside, even if you don't realize it.

 

[brittanyherndon]

If this is an "assignment" for your counselor, it's probably not best to be flipping back and forth between Word and the DIS. It's probably best to turn off the tv, music, computer, etc. and get a fun pen or pencil and some blank paper and just write in a stream of consciousness (also known as a "brain dump" or "free write"), where you just write whatever comes to you without thinking. This helps draw out the feelings that are buried a little bit. If you keep interrupting/distracting yourself, you won't get to that point and they will stay buried.

And I agree with PPs who say you're doing this for yourself. Avoiding the issue won't make it go away. Whatever the issue is will eat at you from the inside, even if you don't realize it.

Good point

 

[bumbershoot]

If this is an "assignment" for your counselor, it's probably not best to be flipping back and forth between Word and the DIS. It's probably best to turn off the tv, music, computer, etc. and get a fun pen or pencil and some blank paper and just write in a stream of consciousness (also known as a "brain dump" or "free write"), where you just write whatever comes to you without thinking. This helps draw out the feelings that are buried a little bit. If you keep interrupting/distracting yourself, you won't get to that point and they will stay buried.

I agree.


I assume this was an assignment the counselor gave you. I'll tell you...it's all a process. She doesn't expect you to bare every single thing about you in one week of journal-writing. But what you do reveal will help her help you. And then you'll talk about more, or talk in a different way about the old stuff, and that will help her help you. They don't expect to "cure" you all at once. Healing is a process, and if she's a good counselor she'll meet you where you are, push you to do more, and if you push back she'll use that too, to help you.

But the best way to make counseling NOT work is to hide and lie and not let her do what she needs to do. And then you'll have wasted your money and time.

 

[klacey1]

I found out that I have an extenson to do the Journal enterires. It was orginaly due tommrow but I have to cancel my councling apt becuse I have to go to school tommrow. Only becuse I have to go to school seens there are 2 days vrs 4

First it's a friend, now it's a counselor who's making you "journal." If you're going to lie, you really ought to make sure your facts are straight, especially if the two contradicting posts are on the same page.

 

[Imzadi]

I have a real isue a friend of mine wants me to start journaling for my own sake, and I just can't becuse I know that thinks of me will be reveald that I don't want reviled. Thinking about cheating by going on the Disboards and finding out what I have talked about, or maybe that is not cheating

Sry I will retype it and see if it helps.
I was told that journaling is the healest way to get heald emotaly.
However I am afried to becuse sometimes when I Journal I can reveal things that I don't want revealed
and I have don't a lot of venting on the disboards so I was thinking of puting those in my journal

I don't think you will have to worry about anyone going through and reading your journal and understanding any of it.

 

[C.Ann]

I don't think you will have to worry about anyone going through and reading your journal and understanding any of it.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

I don't think you will have to worry about anyone going through and reading your journal and understanding any of it.

Thats a pithy and astute observation.

I will agree with that diagnosis. Our work here is done.

RUM?

 

[ChrizJen]

I understand completely what the OP was trying to say, and the bottom line is that you can't "fake" a journal. A journal is for you and you alone. If you "cheat" by using topics you've discussed in the past on the DIS, you're only cheating yourself. The healing part of keeping a journal is revealing to yourself the things that trouble you. If you don't intend to really sit down and keep a journal of your thoughts, then don't bother to do it. You won't help anyone by creating a fake journal.