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882 views 6 replies 5 participants last post by  LISA NICHOLS 
Maybe you would get a lot out of writing a journal and thinking about it as therapy, which it is! You write exactly what you would say to a therapist. Most of therapy is actually the process of talking about our feelings. There is usually very little input from the therapist. The talking itself is the therapy and the writing itself can be the therapy, because these actions allow you to express (one in speech and one in writing) your inner thoughts and feelings. That's the bottom line of what therapy is -- a milieu in which you freely express everything that's on your mind, everything that you want to say. From doing that activity, you will experience connections between things and feelings and have insights and develop more understanding into yourself.

So for a therapy substitute, journaling is good one. What a therapist adds to the equation is a live, trained mind that may suggest patterns or things that seem to fit together and may mean something to you. A therapist may hear two things that suggest a third thing and then ask you if that third thing had any relevance in your opinion. You could do that for yourself to a degree, but it's better to have a person who's trained in it.

Look at it this way: if you start journaling now, down the road you may be able to find a therapist who will have a sliding scale that allows you to afford his or her services, and you will already have much of what you want to say on paper. You could then either use it to present your situation at your first meeting or not, depending on how you feel at the moment.

I definitely would try it for a week or two and see how you like it. Perhaps make a twice a week appointment with your journal for 50 minutes. If you do, I'd be very interested in hearing how it works out for you.
 
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