I have kept a journal in a text file since 2011, synced via dropbox. It's grown to be over a meg at this point. At that time, I was feeing depressed, and it gav

I have kept a journal in a text file since 2011, synced via dropbox. It's grown to be over a meg at this point. At that time, I was feeing depressed, and it gave me tremendous sense of clarity and order to be able to put my thoughts into writing and check in every day. I haven't had this problem as much these days, but I have kept the habit. I have a rule with myself that if I find myself ruminating over some stupid thing that happened during the day, I may do so, but only in writing. For some reason, typing my way through such thoughts, even for short periods of time, tends to make them clearer and to more quickly reveal any distortions/fallacies therein.