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What to do with painful journal entries

My journal entries from when I was depressed are so dark I am afraid to keep them but also afraid to throw them away because they feel like the only record of that suffering.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Difficult experiences recorded in writing create tension between honoring past pain and protecting present well-being.

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