Are There Any Downsides of Journaling? Plenty. While it…

Are There Any Downsides of Journaling? Plenty. While it encourages a lot of self-thought and self-actualization, it can also encourage you to be too much into yourself, too self-possessed. You might be obsessed about why did this happen, why did this happen, why did this happen. You're not looking for a solution, you're just going on and on saying why did this happen. So almost like an obsessive need to sometimes be right, or an obsessive need to win an argument. It might make you very self-absorbed, that you don't feel like talking to others. Your interpersonal relationships may suffer, because every time you have a problem, you run to your journal and start writing, instead of saying, okay, let me deal with it, there's a person sitting here right in front of me. Let me try and deal with it, or let me try and find my peer group. Sometimes we can have this girly session or a boy session, wherein we're all talking about our iss