How important is journal writing?

man take my word for it - THE JOURNAL WORKS...
i started using porn substitutes since before 1st grade , (women's lingerie ads). I'm 21 and I've been an addict more than 15 years. My top nofap score was 3 - 4 days. Since day 1 of my life i m socially unaccepted - nobody likes me boys nor girls. I was so sad and hopeless after a relapse in sept 4th 2017 07 32Am that i thought maybe i should write my feelings because there was no one i could tell it. No one who will consolidate me after hearing that. I started writing things in it. Things i wanted to tell others. MY perspectives about things, and each time a relapse occurred i wrote a real detailed information about that in my journal., like date time , number of porn watching hours, genres of porn i watched, my feelings and anxieties of that moment. my sadness for being a porn addict for more than 70 % of my life , all sort if things. The most incredible thing about keeping a journal is that after 3 - 4 months of doing it you can kind of draw a graph about relapses and man i gotta tell you this - seeing my graph line becoming better as time was passing , it felt good , really good... my journal really is playing a good part in my recovery process...

then i got job out of town and i had a roommate. then i stopped logging. thats when things backfired. I started going back to porn. I was having 13+ hours of porn per day. sleeping at 5 am daily and waking up at 6 30. But nw I m living myself and so i started logging again and things are better...

i highly recommend keeping a journal. and when entering logs do it in very detail fashion , with lots of numbers, at lest the numbers i mentioned above . you cannot plot progress with feelings, but only with numbers.

 

i used a book; but every one seems like they are okey with some mobile app. i think keeping an old book dedicated for logging works better, but its your choice.

 

Keeping a journal on this site actually helps quite a bit, in my recent experience. It keeps me focused on where my struggles are and on fighting against them.

 

Do it for yourself, write a journal about anything, soon you will develop a system and you will love it. I came to that point and now I see improvements every week.

 

I use Evernote too, I love it.

 

its your choice bro... you can do it.. you can overcome this. if i can do 25 you can do more.

There is another thing i forgot to mention. YOU SHOULD READ YOUR PREVIOUS RELAPSE REPORTS WHEN YOU GET TIME. This is very important because when you read those sentences you will re live that situation and you will feel that failure that happened before. You will remember the desperation and depression you felt... And this WILL DRIVE YOU more than you would go on your own.. Trust me on that... There was one another thing i did. When ever i wanted to write something in my journal i always read my previous entry first. I also used to read it in other times.

Good luck and , peace

 

Not like that, you can plan in many ways in the journal or in Evernote though. But accomplishment comes from doing stuff right.

 

Yes it is important indeed

 

I think it highly depends on the person and how they process what they’re experiencing. For me journals are part of my process. It’s how I clarify my thoughts and explore my feelings. It’s where I can fully express my deepest, darkest thoughts and really examine what is happening in my mind.
For others there may be other ways to explore their mind and release their thoughts. Some might use poetry, or music, or short stories, or art, or just meditation. How people process is as individual and unique as the experiences they have in their lives.

 

I like to journal almost every day since I started in 2018.

The best way to journal is to keep it about the NoFap struggles that you face.

That is more likely to engage other people.

The other suggestion is to keep it honest. Painfully so.

Otherwise, you are cheating yourself.

It's anonymous anyway, might as well go full throttle.

 

I have gotten some good results from keeping a physical diary. I recommend it strongly. Sometimes I follow a plan and write down concrete goals, but at the bare minimum, I just write how I'm feeling when I wake up, and what I want to do each day. Sometimes I just put my thoughts down, even if they're not related to NoFap. I think it's important to consciously check in with yourself from time to time. It is very easy to get caught up in daily life and forget to self-reflect.