(Yesterday, 07:20 PM)>pixi Wrote: >The perks of keeping a journal or making art. When I'm in an episode, I have such a need to get my thoughts >and feelings out there (depending on the content).

>This is something I'm encouraged to do by a few people, professionals and friends mostly. In the moment it >helps. I don't have to shout and scream, I can do it on a page.

>Looking back over these pages when I'm thinking more clearly is so challenging. I can see just how much I was >suffering at that time. l've destroyed art l've made in psychosis, because I worried viewing it would make it come >back.

>I keep my journals from psychosis hidden away and don't touch them if I'm doing a bit better. It takes a lot of >fortitude to go back into the thoughts you were having, the feelings you felt, what the voices told you.

>But it can make you feel grateful when the tide of symptoms recedes.


Armand-
I know it is a very common piece of therapeutic advice to have a person journal. It must be helping a lot of people. The only effect it seems to ever produce when I give it a try is solidify it in my memory. I don't journal