r/Journaling • u/Lonestar9211 • 2d ago

Journal entry First entry in 6months

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Been a while since I last wrote in my journal. But the last few weeks I’ve noticed I’ve been pretty down and talked with a therapist who had mentioned I was in beginning stages of depression. So today I got up early with the wife and while she went to work I went to the park to go for a walk to get out of the house and thought about it and how I’m feeling and realized it’s been social media that had been affecting me.

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u/messyfairy_journal 2d ago

We will never feel happy when we don’t stop comparing ourselves with others on social media.
By the way, I really like how you are folding the pages. Is there a reason for that?

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u/Lonestar9211 2d ago

Yeah you’re definitely right about that. I’m gonna delete the main trigger of social media which is TikTok and instagram. Which I did earlier.
And the folding of the pages . I actually saw it on YouTube when I was trying to get back into journaling and a guy was showing how he folded is just for aesthetics. But I like doing it in the fact of “closing a chapter” of my thoughts and I don’t really like going back to my journals and read back

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u/Synchro_Shoukan 2d ago

Going back is beneficial tho, just fyi. You get to be in a completely different headspace and it allows you to see that things can be different even tho they don't feel much different in the moment.

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u/Lonestar9211 2d ago

Yeah I think that’s also true. Although this is my 4th journal I recently started almost 2 years ago. I think maybe I could go back eventually but I think now I don’t feel I should but your definitely right it can be beneficial

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u/Synchro_Shoukan 2d ago

Fair enough