Journaling Your Way Out Of Depression
November 17, 2007
Did you know that if you are depressed, you can help yourself just by doing something as simple as keeping a journal? Lots of people keep a journal for many different reasons. If you are depressed, I want to encourage you to journal your way out of depression.
As always, if you are depressed, you should always follow your physician’s instructions. If you have been prescribed medication for depression, do not stop taking it. Rather, think of journaling as an extra tool to help you walk out of that depression.
One of the most common symptoms of depression is extreme anxiety or a feeling of hopelessness about a situation. When you feel like you don’t have any control over a situation, you feel extreme anxiety because of it, which only feeds into your already depressive state.
Journaling is an outlet for you to express your thoughts and feelings without causing harm or damage to yourself or anyone around you. So often, a patient who is depressed will scream at others around them or lash out in anger at others, even though they don’t mean to. Journaling helps stop this.
Keeping a journal for your depression is very easy and simple to do. Don’t think that you can only write in your journal. You should use your journal in any way you see fit to help you work through what you are feeling.
The most important thing about journaling through your depression is that you put your thoughts and feelings on the paper. Whether it is through writing, creating collages, or drawing pictures. Any way you choose to do it is fine.
