How to Keep a Journal for Anxiety and Why It Helps
Can journaling help anxiety? Can writing down your thoughts and your daily activities help with your anxiety and stress?
By Sean Clarke
Can journaling help anxiety? Can writing down your thoughts and your daily activities help with your anxiety and stress?
I would argue yes.
Because I’m all about managing your anxiety rather than ‘curing’ it — which I don’t believe in, I’ve always had a curiosity around journaling for anxiety. This post is all about my thoughts on journaling for anxiety, or keeping a thought diary, and how it can benefit you as a long term anxiety defence tool.
Journaling is something many of us have done at some point in our lives. Many children (and adults to be fair) keep diaries for the purposes of keeping a tab on what they’ve been up to, and also to look back on.
A diary keeps your mind focused as you look back on your logs. It’s ultimately a way of documenting your daily happenings. For whatever reason you may keep a journal or a diary, there’s no question that journaling can help with anxiety — in my personal opinion.
