Keeping a diary, I have always failed at. Cognitive journaling, on the other hand, as a coping mechanism for my mental illness, works like a charm.

Edit: the fountain pen helps, too.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
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      7 days ago

      Oh I don’t even use AI chatbots at all, actually. I just have a huge inferiority complex that drives me to try to make jokes in order to get cheap validation from internet strangers.

      But I mean, if I were to date Gemini I just have to make sure my keyboard is nicely wrapped in a condom first and I should be good, right?!

      • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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        7 days ago

        I 100% realized that you were joking. I was just trying to ride on the wings of your joke. 😅

        Ugh… Don’t even get me started on validation… After having lived with depression and its perks - isolation being one of them - for four years, I have ZERO judgment. I mean, just a single like on a post or comment of mine feels like morphine at this point. 🤣

        • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
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          7 days ago

          Well, to be honest it wasn’t so much that I was afraid you thought I was serious so much as I took the opportunity to make a self-depreciating joke - another of my standard routines (that get old fast).

          And I get you. I have a feeling our life situations are fairly similar in that regard, actually.