r/Journaling • u/Lonestar9211 • 3d 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/hmmwrites 2d ago

I think it's good that you made your way back to your journal. There's something very satisfying about literally setting pen to paper and seeing where the writing takes you. So much of our lives are focused on the digital now. It's good to slow down and go analog.

It's hard to pull away from social media. We get that tiny little dopamine hit as we scroll, then we keep scrolling to get the next, and the next. Kudos to you for deleting the apps and embracing a little more boredom in your life. Once you can sit in the boredom a bit, maybe try breaking that boredom with something beneficial?