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When journaling becomes nostalgia addiction

I love rereading my old journals but get completely lost in them for hours and my wife says I live more in my written past than my actual present.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Recorded experiences can become more compelling than current reality, creating a retreat from present-moment engagement into documented memory.

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