dan showing his pride in dodie is the ultimate mood honestly

My biggest journaling tip and the thing that finally worked for me, is don't force yourself to write. I tried so many times to keep a daily journal and exactly like Dan said, after 3 days I rage quit. Start by just writing when you feel the need to or when you want to. Eventually it will become more natural and it won't feel like a chore to do it every day.

Just don't stress about what you write and how you write. It doesn't have to start with 'Dear dairy", it doesn't have to be long or have three arguments to suport your thesis :) Sometimes I'll journal for 3 pages, but most of the times it's couple of sentences. Sometimes I write "Nothing exciting happened. Just me and some tv-shows.' and that's it. Remember, it;s for you, not for some historian to read in 150 years. You can draw, you can curse, attach a cinema ticket or write a Nickelback lyrics. You can journal just the way you feel it in the moment.

i recently started bullet journaling and two weeks in im still writing in it every day! i'd tried to make a bullet journal before but i put too much pressure on myself to include EVERY section i had seen online, along with all the aesthetics and drawings but thats just not my style. so instead ive adapted it and i make mini daily lists of my tasks and thoughts and events and what im wearing or what ive eaten, which is good enough for me. i also have a seperate journal for all my more lengthy bits like rants or stories or lyrics i really like and it helps to have both of these available without the pressure to put the most effort into them. i think the main point of journaling is to find a way it works for you and to just get into the habit of it which can be a struggle at first but should be good for clearing my head in the long run :)

journalling helped me come to terms with my sexuality, and i don't know where i'd be without having done that. writing everything down helped me sort out my thoughts and figure out what they actually meant

When I get an idea in my head, most of the time I feel like I have to talk about it. That's how I know it's time to journal, when I just need a good rant or I cannot stop thinking about something, good or bad, I write it down. That's what's worked best for me :)

Omg!! Penguin picked one of the best person to talk about mental health :)

1) Writing poems with a concrete form is a great way to focus as you have to think about rules and can’t let your mind wander (limericks are bloody perfect as they’re short and silly) 2) This video made me want to go write instead of doing my revision and I think that’s what I’m gonna do now. Success? God knows

I have been journaling for nearly 4 years consistently. My whole life I’ve wanted to keep a diary and was never able to do it simply because I would forget! When I started 4 years ago I had no intention of keeping it up - there was no pressure. I kept the notebook by my bed and a month later I found myself picking it up again. From then on I probably wrote in the journal twice a month, now I do it pretty much every two or three days. I think that keeping off that pressure and not worrying about being consistent while keeping it on hand is the most effective way to be consistent. Also looking back is the best and most interesting thing!!

I've kept a daily journal for 3 1/2 years now after years of dipping in and out of it. One of the things that helped me keep to it was and is that my counsellor recommended to finish each day by writing a positive thing that happened that day, that way you always end the day on a good note. It sounds trite but it really worked for me and I still do it, so might work for others too!

I absolutely LOVE to journal, what I do is make it a bit more arty though. So instead of just writing, I'll print out photos from things I've seen or done each day, add washi tape, stickers, doodles, coloured pens etc. I feel like that makes it more exciting and gives me opportunities to be creative in other ways, too :)

I am the exact same, I'm a perfectionist when it comes to journaling, drawing and painting.ect. I struggle SO MUCH

I write poems to track my mental health.it does give relief.

Strange idea, take it or leave it if you like, what if you tried to write your life like a script? Write a scene that played out in your life or alter it with your imagination. Either way when you look back on it it’ll tell you what your mind was going through at the time. Good luck journaling!

I started journaling a couple of months back, and it really really works for me. I‘m on my third notebook now. My tip for starting would be that it does not have to be a perfectly crafted text. Just start by making a bunch of bullet points with what’s on your mind. Do a mindmap. Doodle. Don’t overdo it, it doesn’t have to be pages and pages to be useful. Don’t forget to use headlines with topic and date, makes it easier to go back and find stuff. Leave some space so you can go back and make annotations!

A simple tip that has helped me keep a journal is to take one day of the week as a set day to take time to write down my thoughts about what happened during the past week. If nothing special happened and if it was very mundane, then I don't write. I only got back to journaling this year, but I remember using this tip when I was much younger when I did keep a journal. Now I'm back at it again. LOL

I journal a LOT (about 1000 words or so daily?). I kept physical journals all through college, but have since transitioned into using Evernote as a digital journal. I can type out thoughts, lists of things I'm thankful for, win fake arguments with friends, write poetry, etc. And I can do it all whenever I'm sitting at my computer. It's been incredibly helpful for my mental health and general self-reflection. :)

I do quite a bit of writing as well. It is less personal when it comes to songwriting and I freestyle for most of my poetry so it's a ramble more than anything else. Most of my writing is in my journal, however, and that took a long time for me to perfect. For a while I thought it had to be about what I did during the day or that I had to write every day but I learned that the key for me was to keep away from structure. If I have any random thought or feeling I write it down. I write about the dreams I've had and concern for my friends and everything in between. Now I have a list of subjects I want to talk about there. It's so nice when I write. I feel like I'm clearing my head a bit. I hope this was helpful to someone maybe. :)

i have a journal that i've been writing in since the beginning of this year, and it helps a lot. when i actually write, that is. i write down what i do and memories in my everyday life, along with my feelings and emotions. so far its been great. it's also fun to decorate the journal.

I've been writing since I was very young (4 I think), and while I have failed miserably at keeping diaries I have a pretty clear track of my mental health in my stories. Obviously they started out pretty goofy, eventually got quite deep and dark, and over the past 2 years (more specifically since I started to work through the depressiom and anxiety I'd gained from suddenly being very ill) all of my work has had an overwhelming theme of wild unreasonable hope, and I don't think I could sum myself up any better.

I find it helpful to channel my problems and feelings into chacters. Happiness forms a girl who wears yellow and drinks tea and smiles constantly. Lonliness adorns blue and heavy, dark makeup. Anger is a spitefull red head whom is made of flames and smokes through the nostrils.

I like to write my thoughts down, whenever I don't have anyone to talk to or feel like I don't. It helps me to clear my head and I can always revisit it. I don't pay much attention to the way it sounds or if it makes sense, I just rant until I can't think of anything else. So it's not a regular thing, I only write, when I feel the need to. Forcing myself to write, doesn't work for me.

Good job, Penguin... I mean, as a fan, I was probably going to like your mental health video anyway... But having Dan making the video, you just did it perfectly, one of the best people to do so... Thank you

I'm a writer and I am SO INCONSISTENT with my journal. I'm also an artist and I RAGE QUIT both types of journals often. My best advice for writing of any kind, or life of any kind is to be kind. Try not to beat yourself up about it and when you inevitably are thinking ' This is a bit futile, why are you doing this? Just put the pen down. Go to bed. Play Tetris...' legit just write that down too, and see what comes next.

Bloody love this

I am a total journaler, but at the beginning I had to start with just writing stream of consciousness every single day for ten minutes when I woke up and when I went to bed and now my journal has become my best mental health tool especially as I have been away from many of my close friends over the last few months.

When I'm really struggling with writing in my diary (i.e. when things are super stressful and all I want to do is go to bed) I try to bullet point at least three good things that happened during that day. I find after a few days my list starts to get bigger and easier to write until I'm essentially writing a page again. It's a good way to get yourself back into the habit when writing feels like the last thing you want to do.

I personally find keeping a gratitude journal to be really good for my mental health as it helps me to focus on the positive things when I have a tendency to be negative.

good old haiku help me simple focused and surprisingly beautiful!

I may have also written my diary in code when I was younger, but I picked a relatively easy to crack code that I can still remember. The main point was really to stop someone from casually glancing over my shoulder or reading it if it was left open or they stumbled across it - my theory (which I still at least somewhat believe in) is that it feels like a very different act to sit there for a long time deliberately trying to crack a code to read someone else's private thoughts versus just "accidentally" looking at it in a way that feels like less of a transgression.

I love to journal and i would suggest stream of conscious journaling to start plenty of youtube videos on my fav is Overall Adventures

Amazing. I always start with something incredibly trivial that happened, and aim to make me it funny. For me to laugh at the next day (as I will probably have forgotten what my completely frizzed 3am brain wrote the night before). And go from there really x

I wrote in a diary religiously from the ages of 14 till 20, I think I then got a smartphone and finding the time or will to write kind of stopped. I've tried multiple times to get back into it, but I just don't stick with it. I know I should go back to it, because I know how good it is for me, so this video may have just given me extra incentive to do so!

lmao everyone read adrian mole and was like IMMA PUBLISH MY DIARY NOW

Can you please make your very own youtube channel, I could listen to you all day haha. It's like a more confident 'sounding' version of myself XD Please make this a thing

Play Tetris 😂😂😂