Day 5 -  Keep Notes Regarding Your Mental Health

Hi {!firstname_fix}

This email series is all about showing you how journaling can be helpful for your mental 
health. Today, it isn’t about something specific, but a general idea of how journaling can 
help you. You are going to learn more about what to write about and how that can help 
with any mental health issue you are dealing with. 

Keeping Notes in Your Journal

You already learned about recording your triggers in your journal, which is a great first 
step to using your journal for mental health, but that is definitely not the only option you 
have. Another great way to utilize a journal’s power is to keep other notes. This is when 
you are recording anything to do with your mental health throughout the day. It will vary 
person to person, and based on the type of mental illness you have.

For example, someone with clinical depression not only writes down their triggers, but 
they might keep track of actions they are taking to help wth their depression, use the 
journal to distract them on a bad depressive day, and make sketches or drawings during 
an especially bad day.

Someone with an anxiety disorder often uses a journal as both a way to stop their panic 
attacks, and just general journal writing to try and figure out what their fears are and 
hopefully put a stop to the irrational phobias.

Do you suffer from panic attacks? Don’t miss tomorrow’s email about using journals to 
help with your panic attacks.

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