Diaries ?

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Is Diary keeping something others have done, did do or are still doing ?

I kept diaries for many years as a teen, then stopped so I guess it was an obsession... ?
I used some of my diaries in my diagnosis meetings to show my thinking back as a child / teen as I did not want to involve my parents or siblings and they proved invaluble.

I spent almost 4 hours last night reliving 1983 through my diary, I remember almost every day as I read the pages, a great insight for me as I have only just been diagnosed so reading back some of my feelings and situations I was dealing with was enlightening !

I think If I could go back to 1983 (the year I left school at 16) with the knowledge and skills I now have my life could have been so different... I am not bitter though, I am proud of who I am and what I have achieved.
Almost feel like starting "Stu's 1983 diary" thread and publish it

Stu

I've found that when I try to write diaries or anything like that I just feel stumped about what to actually write. I've never really tried very much though, and I've never felt I needed one.

I've never kept a diary.

I have been a more or less faithful diarist for the last 14 years.

I hav yrs and yrs of diaries. Thought about publishing them because it might be interesting from a developmental perspective. But I get really upset reading some of the stuff, so I stopped working on typing them up a while ago.

I'm not sure if this counts as a 'diary' but I make notes on the computer about my feelings. It's mostly been since I started counselling so I can organise my thoughts.

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I have never kept a diary, however i have heard that it is a good thing to do, that is what the shrinks say.
Nowadays people scrapbook and make a diary of the scrapbook which consists of drawings, cut outs, pretty much art to act as words which i think is neat.

I do random art, yet i don't make scrapbook diaries although i kind of want to... i like to make art collages

i've tried multiple times to keep a diary, but it never works for me. probably because not a lot of interesting things happen to me. i'm also not good at putting my feelings into words.

Once I start writing, it gets more and more detailed every day and eventually I get overwhelmed by that task and get stressed. So, I don't do that kind of thing. I do put the date and something I did (for example a haircut, opening a bag of coffee beans) because it's handy to have a record of when certain things were done.

I've been keeping a diary since I was ten (I'm 34 now). I love going back and re-reading my old diaries and laughing at some of the crazy stuff I did when I was younger. Not to mention that it does help to connect past behaviors with my Asperger's diagnosis. That's what's really great about diaries.

I've always been meaning to maintain a chronicle to keep track of things that happen, so that when I later recall so some personal event, I don't have to rack my brain trying to remember the date it took place. As I get older and with my life having being so static over so many years, everything is becoming a blur.

My diary is my memory.

If something has been forgotten, if probably wasn't worth writing about anyway.