I have tried journaling numerous times, particularly for mental health reasons as it is supposed to be helpful, and it has never worked for me as something helpful to do. It just makes me ruminate even more.

I’ve tried. I want to be a journaler so bad, but I can’t keep it up at all. I either get bored or I get too detailed and it takes too long to write down one entry, so I stopped trying.

I was better at bullet journaling, but only slightly.

I had really good success doing a daily page of A5, few months ago tried to upgrade to doing art least 1 page of A4 per day. I’ve slightly fallen off the habit.

I don’t keep a journal per say. I occasionally write depressing poetry or just things I think sound cool that I come up with. I write things in a .txt file.

Journal bearings have their uses, but sometimes you need to manage thrust or torsion forces

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I kept a Livejournal for many years. I closed it when the Russian government basically took it over for propaganda, but mirrored it to Dreamdwidth. It’s hard to read in places, but it’s helped me a lot regarding ending my relationship and why I’m not crazy.

I started a free writing journal to help generate ideas and learn to get a little more creative. It’s basically just a regular journal at this point, I just write in it whenever I have a thought that I feel I should keep. It’s been invaluable for coping with mental health stuff too. I don’t think I’ll ever stop, it’s not something I have to force myself to do any more.

I quasi-journal at work, just to remember what I’ve done and why I did it. I do so using markdown files.

As an over 30 gay woman, I’m in a similar spot. I journaled just a bit when I was younger, but I was really struggling with life and everything.

I think it would be a good outlet for me now, but I don’t want to do full pages because I think that would end up just swirling the depressing things all around. I’ve been looking into little guided journals with short daily topics.