Comment by wruza

Therapists suggest writing whatever is on your mind, including thoughts about the process itself, unfiltered. E.g. basically start with an F and how you hate all this bs and everything. If journaling itself is an issue, address it first. It’s another stupid …ing thing that you now have to do too for your idiotic mental health and your life became full of this … so quickly and …ing WHY, it was so normal just a few years ago, even with…

This is the fundamental shift - accepting everything including meta. People tend to distance from themselves, as if they were two distinct parts, one broken and one debugging. But the debugging part is also broken.