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Anonymous
May 28th, 2015 10:03pm
Yes, they can help you express your feelings, plus they can help you evaluate your moods over a long period of time and what causes it, helping you to prevent it in the future.
Anonymous
May 30th, 2015 6:40am
Yes, they help you write and express those feelings, they can evaluate your feelings for a long time, and what causes those, helping to prevent it later in life.
It depends on the person if this is a coping skill that could work for an individual. While journaling can be a very therapeutic resource, it may not work for everybody. The only way to know if it will work for you is to try it. One can start by journaling about positive things that happened in their day, or things they like such as poetry or other things that make you happy. But, you won't know if it works for you unless you try it for yourself.
Anonymous
February 12th, 2018 11:13am
Depends on you and what helps you cope. For me they help sort out what I'm feeling and why. It can help keep track of your mood and emotions. It can sometimes be calming and maybe identify the cause of a feeling so you can prevent it. It doesn't work on everyone, so if you're curious on if it'd work on you, maybe try it to see.
Hopefully this helped :b
i personally think mood journals are extremely helpful. I started a mood journal and it has been very helpful to be able to look back and see what caused my behaviors and how to avoid them later. I thin journaling in itself is a form of therapy and is extremely helpful!
Writing down your feelings can help by giving you a positive outlet for them, so I'd say yeah, mood journals can be helpful.
It's really hard to say what is and isn't effective overall, because different things work for different people. Some people, for example, just can't keep to mood journals. If you do like to journal and you keep to it, mood journaling might be a good thing to try out. Trying it out is the only way to determine whether or not you'll find it to be effective!
Yes, sometimes writing your mood and how you feel on a day to day basis is a great way to firstly, see your progress. Secondly, write your emotions and unleash inner emotions and thirdly, gives yourself something to occupy your time when you feel like your emotions are getting far too hard to handle.
I found them helpful! They're good to help you notice that your mood does change, even if you feel like you're always feeling one thing. And it helps you to analyze the factors that lead to you feeling a certain way, and to identify other ways you could have reacted.
Anonymous
July 18th, 2017 11:32pm
It depends on the person. For me, I tend to push emotions down, and writing things down brings them to the surface, where i can deal with them instead of avoiding them. Of course, depends on the person, but can't hurt to try it!
I believe so. Journals can be extremely cathartic because it allows you to get all of your feelings out of your head and onto paper. I would reccommend that you write it down, leave it sit for a few days without reading it at all and then visiting it again to see if the feelings are the same!
I have found mood journals helpful for short periods of time. They can highlight patterns and links that you may not notice otherwise for example hormonal changes, diet, social events or even the working week. It's also rather helpful to notice how extreme the highs/lows are and also it can be good to take to the doctors or any assessments to give a clearer picture of where you are emotionally.
Totally are.
I have one.
The rule: it has no rules. You can write whatever you want, whenever you want. You don't have to write everyday at a specific time or about just your mood.
It's a chat with yourself.
I usually start my post (on my smartphone) with the most important thing of the day or something that reminds me of that day in the future.
Today it would be like "Stretching again every morning... my back hurts!"
Sometimes i write a dream, and what I am angry at. Mostly I write to vent:
"Why is it people believe a woman must like pink?
Why is it so hard to find some jeans made for real women with strong thighs?
I read my brother is against gay marriage... I wonder why that is"
I totally support people with emotional breakdowns to have a journal.
It really is. If you are unsure about how you are feeling, mood journals can be something to try so you can record what you are feeling daily. It helps you controlling all the negative feelings and help you realize when and what lifts up and pulls down your mood.
Anonymous
May 29th, 2018 12:38am
Journaling can be helpful in many situations. It gives you a chance to express yourself and over time allows you to reflect on what you have been feeling.
Yes because they help track your mood over a period of time for professionals to see and perhaps give you medications or a diagnosis
Anonymous
January 21st, 2019 9:25pm
Yes, because writing down your feelings can really help. Those who write down what they're feeling have more open room to fix what they don't like or how they're feeling by looking at a list. If you have a hard time to remember things, writing everything down will help for future reference. Knowing everything that you find 'different' about yourself can prove difficult, but having it written down for future reference can most definitely help you on the long run. It's always good to get things off your chest, and if talking to someone is uncomfortable for you, writing is most definitely a great option.
Anonymous
July 21st, 2020 10:58pm
Mood journals, diaries, or idea notebooks are really, really helpful. They are great ways to express your ideas and organize the random thoughts floating around our heads onto a piece of paper. Specifically, with mood journals, they help you specifically and concretely express your frustrations or concerns about life and can lead you to find solutions to them. It's also really great for your mental health and wellbeing because storing your pent up anger without letting it out in any sort of way only makes you feel worse over time and eventually burst out in anger. It's best to write those ideas down first. Additionally, writing these ideas down first can help you express yourself to others in the future if necessary.
It depends on many circumstances and factors whether mood journal are helpful for you or not. It depends on what do you write in your mood journals, which mental health issues do you have and whether your mood issues are caused by external factors (bullying, financial, relationship, family, caregiving, work, school or other educational stress or any other significant stresses (loss of dear one, loss of your health or health of your dear ones), or are they caused by internal factors (mental health issues such as depression or physical health issues which can also cause mood issues - anemia or hypothiroidism for example).
In my opinion, they are absolutely helpful! But, they are only as helpful as much as you use them and genuinely engage with them. If you put your all into filling it out, it is a great resource to look back on and promotes reflection: an encouraging way to watch your progress occur! It's hard to know how much progress we've made with healing, growing, etc. but with a mood journal/journaling in general you can easily reference times that were hard or positive and reflect on your past. You can learn so much just from your past self and its old defenses.
Anonymous
July 14th, 2015 2:36am
Taking the time to sit and do a journal can have a great deal of a change on our moods and make us have a better outcome. We can chat and look at what has been a trigger and what hasn't for as long as we nee to work on issues at hand.
Anonymous
January 26th, 2015 6:56am
I personally feel like they are a great way to keep track of your emotions. It helps to see a pattern in your behavior.
Personally I think mood journals are very helpful. You can express you're feelings on to paper, so you don't have to worry about saying it outloud. It can be good for distraction, and figuring out how you're feelings work. It's worth a try, definitely.
They can be, if you also have a support system in place. Mood journals help record logical fallacies and mood swings but you may need in being consistently optimistic :)
Anonymous
May 13th, 2015 1:38pm
They can be very helpful. Some people find it helps to let out their feelings and problems. It can release a lot of tension and make your shoulders feel better.
I have found that mood journals or food logs if you're in recovery from an eating disorder are both really helpful. They help me to see I've made any progress or steps to cope.
Anonymous
May 22nd, 2015 10:23am
Different things are helpful to different people, and it really depends on the type of person you are. But if you are interested in trying a mood journal I highly encourage you to keep one for a week or two and see if you like it! It can't hurt to try, right?
Yes, they actually do work and are helpful. Give it a try. It may be weird or difficult in the beginning but you'll see for yourself that they do actually help.
i believe mood journals can be helpful if you dont have anyone close to share your feelings with or just arent that kind of person to share their feelings. someway we all have to let all of our feelings out.
Anonymous
June 13th, 2016 10:30pm
Yes. It is a great way to put out how your feling and even seeing it on paper can help you understand it better.
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