Leave no paper trace

By can’t do it - 25/04/2023 10:00

Today, my therapist asked me if I’d been journaling as he suggested. I had to tell him that I don’t trust writing down my innermost thoughts anymore, because when I was younger my mom read by diary multiple times and beat me for what I wrote. So did my ex-boyfriend. FML
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Rake 16

Use your phone with something like onenote. Password protects the drive and only allow access from that specific device. No one will be able to see what you wrote.

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Anderling 32

From the phrasing of the OP (“I had to tell him” vs “remind him”) I’m not sure the therapist knew about this, in which case I can’t fault him for doing something wrong by accident when he had no way of knowing it had this many negative connotations for OP.

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FluffythePink 22

Your therapist really should have taken the negative connotations you have with journaling into account. Maybe you should try a better therapist rather than one that's just following the 'script'?

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Anderling 32

From the phrasing of the OP (“I had to tell him” vs “remind him”) I’m not sure the therapist knew about this, in which case I can’t fault him for doing something wrong by accident when he had no way of knowing it had this many negative connotations for OP.

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Anderling 32

Does it help you personally to talk about it? Maybe you could buy a cheap voice recorder and dedicate it to voicing your thoughts out loud instead of writing it down if that doesn’t have the same negative feelings attached to it, while still letting you keep a record of them.

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Rake 16

Use your phone with something like onenote. Password protects the drive and only allow access from that specific device. No one will be able to see what you wrote.

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