Does journaling really help to maintain a profound psychological state?

https://lemm.ee/post/61855104

Does journaling really help to maintain a profound psychological state? - lemm.ee

I’ve( 22M ) been an overthinker for almost my entire life. Not only that, I have hyper-anxiety and overwhelmness. I haven’t been scheduled with a psychiatrist so far. A few months ago, I seriously realized that I was wasting my time on devices( phones, laptops etc) and haven’t been paying attention to real life and responsibilities. Because I had made devices as a way to escape from reality. Then I made a schedule to maintain that included low and controlled use of devices and some other things. Journaling was also a part of that. I began to write my daily events on a journal app in my phone. I had a physical diary that I started to use to write down advices, methods, facts, important instructions that I was gathering from youtube. That diary is now filled around 60%. I continued writing my daily journal in the app for 1.5 months and then lost the drive to continue for unknown reason. Consider this one of my main psychological problem. I lose drive very quickly. Then I realized that, when I continued journaling, I had more control of my overall daily activity that I used to do. I had less laziness, more energy, more drive, healthy sleep schedule etc. And now, it seems that I’ve sunken into my peak rabbithole again. Now I’m seeking advices from people who turned their life in a positive way by writing journals as a first step. Any other advices except journaling is also welcomed.

I never really saw the point of journaling, so it never “took” for me.

I write a bunch of stuff down, and then what? What do I “do” with it? I read it again later? No, I won’t do that. Somebody else reads it? No, it’s not intended for that.

So, I don’t journal as such.

I do organize my tasks and things to remember in a bullet journal (bujo) format, though, and that helps. But it’s less about thoughts and feelings (long-winded opinions and observations), and more about tasks and events (simple and concise one-liner statements of fact). I do like bujo to keep my work organized.

that’s only a thing on .ml, the rest of lemmy agrees that censoring “bitching” is pretty silly
I’m relatively new to Lemmy: what instance(s) in your (collective) opinion strike that sweet spot between being a) very free speech oriented and minimally censored, but also b) not taken over by right wing CHUDs, trashed up like 4chan, or hosting CP, gore, and all that nastiness that comes with zero moderation?

my instance (lemmy.dbzer0.com, commonly referred to as db0) is an anarchist leftist comm.

it’s also where r/privacy migrated to, you can find them (megathread and all) at [email protected]

lemmy.ml, hexbear.net, and lemmygrad.ml are often called the “tankie triad” because they’re full of tankies, people will often mistake you for a tankie just by the virtue of being on that instance.

as for other instances,

.world is the biggest and quite liberal/centrist/moderate with pretty heavy handed moderation.

lemmy.blahaj.zone is by trans people for trans people, I believe non-trans allies are allowed on it but if you’re not LGBT it’s probably not the best place for you.

pawb.social is furries

lemm.ee, lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works I don’t know the politics of but I would assume leftist and I haven’t heard anything bad said about any of them, will leave anything past that to others.

this might be worth a post of its own if you’re looking for more info than that tbh

but yeah really you’re not gonna find right wing CHUDs or cp or gore or anything here there’s generally good enough content moderation to prevent that and really the only instance with crazy censorship is the one you picked lol

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Neat, that was really helpful.

Yes, I’d simply picked my instance at random.

yeah I started on .world because it was the biggest (.ml is 2nd I believe) but eventually grew tired of the neoliberalism especially surrounding Luigi, always really appreciated the vibes of the db0 punks so decided to join them.

OH I almost forgot, the final nail in the coffin was when I learned that while .world is federated with db0 they have [email protected] blocked. so as a .world user I was unable to access it at all.

I decided they have no right to make that decision on my behalf and made this db0 account that same day

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