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.

  • 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.