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In my case, I keep a journal so I can record notes about what happened during therapy and stuff about my mental illness. Mine's digital, since I live with family.
I find it useful since I think of questions/topics to ask my T before the next session. Sometimes I print out some of my notes, so I can refer to them in session. |
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Yes, I do. Both a therapy journal and a dream journal. It's been helpful for me to go back and refer to different sessions I might not remember correctly.
After 7+ years I have a couple boxes of filled spiral notebooks... |
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#3
Sort of? I try and write about my sessions as though I am an objective 3rd party...it reads like fiction but sometimes it helps me see things that I hadn't before.
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Yes. I write to my T. I give her my journal and she reads it between sessions.
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I don't. First, because my sessions are so frequent (four days a week), so it would be really exhausting to write every day. Secondly, the material is really just repeating over and over again, with slightly different wording. Thirdly, the work we do is on a very deep level, so that anything that I would be able to write would be a pale reflection of what really happened and thus essentially incorrect by definition. I've tried to but I haven't experienced it to be useful. I find it more useful to keep the experiences and perceptions in a raw format in my mind.
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I write down everything I remember after each session. I don't write down things that happen between appointments or other things related to my mental health there.
I like to read what we've discussed again sometimes a day or two after a session or sometimes when I just need comfort. I tend to just read a random page from that journal and it calms me down. |
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I often use the In Session Today thread as a therapy journal. I often read my post back before my next session, and occasionally look back over really old posts.
Only trouble is, some weeks (like last week) I feel a little uncomfortable posting my session publicly, but I PMed with someone which was really, really helpful. I like to journal here because it also gives me an opportunity to discuss with a third party and process it all a bit. |
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I like writing and did in the beginning, for a while, but did not get anything useful out of it even though it can obviously enrich and clarify things to write them out. I find it much more interesting and meaningful when I share bits and pieces of any kind of self exploration with peers that are interested in similar things, and not my own experiences alone but more in a conversation where I am not the only one (or main one) sharing. So this website can be good and I also have a good friend who lives in a different state and we email. But I quickly lose motivation for monologs and I don't tend to look at them again later. I am similar with most things about my life, rarely take photographs either, for example. So prefer my own mental storage and discussion.
When I was in therapy, I did prefer for my sessions and decided in advance what to bring up, sometimes made simple notes with bulletpoints to take to the appointment. I do the same for many other kind of meeting, so did not have a therapy-specific method. |
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With my long term T, I did yes. I am glad too because with him gone, it's been helpful at times (although painful) to go back and re-read the session recaps I wrote
With the other clowns, No. I don't care about them or our therapy enough to bother __________________ Grief is the price you pay for love. |
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I keep a journal. I do use it to jot down my impressions and memories of therapy sessions. I also review what I've written between sessions and make a list of what I might want to cover in the upcoming session. But mostly I use the journal as a tool to write about the thoughts, impressions, emotion, dreams that are related to the issues I'm dealing with in therapy. The journal feels like the place where a lot of the actual work happens, and therapy is a touchstone where I talk about questions, struggles, insights.
Similar to Echos, I sometimes go over my posts here in In Session or Dear T before a session, too, or make sure to jot those thoughts into my journal. There's something about putting the thoughts out here that is a little different than writing to myself. __________________ Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you. (St. Augustine) |
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I kept notes and recorded the appointments so that when the woman tried to deny things or rewrite history in her favor - I had evidence.
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