Why do I feel like I go insane when I don't have my journal with me?

I feel like that quite a lot, because I use my journal to write out my thoughts and feelings! It's ok to feel like that, but I've found that it's been helpful for me to learn other ways to deal with my thoughts and feelings too, because sometimes I get stuck without my journal.

Your journal may be the only thing keeping you stable. It is your form of release or expression, and without it you feel lost. You need to find a range of methods to maintain your emotions.

You might be too clingy to the journal, you might also be paranoid that it might go to the hands of others.

It's very common to feel attached to a physical item, such as a journal, that you may have had travel with you throughout your life. That's normal, and could be why you feel such a strong bond to it.

Journal is a tool for managing your emotions- it helps you reflect, to organize thoughts, to look back at yourself AND your surroundings whenever. Suddenly not having the journal by your side can trigger anxiety- you don't grasp the control anymore, the balance is at risk, WHERE IS MY PEN, WHERE IS MY PAPER!

Because it has everything you have ever felt...your dreams your emotions... it is like your best friend, who never judges you.

You don't know how to efficiently convey your thoughts and feelings. You're used to writing out your emotion down on paper, but without that method, you are confused as to how to think out your feelings.

I can relate to this a lot. Your journal, in a way, becomes an extension of your memory and in turn holds value as a keeper of thought. We use it as a substitute for actual conversations with people. Journals often act as a way of communication in way that is non-judgmental and completely free to be painted in our perspective. With that being said, we develop an emotional and mental bonds with it just as we connect to any other human or animal. That, or the individual could be naturally possessive about what they consider theirs, they could fear someone else having access to it and it's contents. It could also be our own ingrain insecurity of being lonely and needing to vent out our mental and emotional turmoil to someone, or in this case something. When we feel lonely, it's comforting to know that you have something to fall back to when you feel like the things aren't working out for you. I myself feel that way with my journal, I consider it as a dear friend who's been there to listen during my darkest times. It's been a constant in my life. With that said, I've subconsciously assigned value to it beyond normality.

Your journal might be your way of expressing your self, withought it you may feel as if you have no way of letting out your feelings.

In a way, I feel that this question resonates with me, "Why do I feel like I go Insane when I don't have my journal with me?" For me, when I first started to build my toolkit to self-care, I researched what worked for others, regardless of sex, religion, gender, social standing, economic status, education level or access to resources. Journaling seemed to stand out across blogs, youtubers, motivational speakers, teachers, mentors, etc.. Journaling, I have witnessed and experienced first-hand, is a way to forgive and come to terms with ever, ones unchanging past, ever changing present and an unknown future. However, writing and documenting all goings on inside my head and putting it on paper wasn't mean to signify a forgetting of something, quite the opposite: journaling my thoughts was a way to remember. the way I see it, journaling, writing, documenting, in whatever medium translates for you, is a very personal way of being your own historing. It is susceptible to being highly subjective, but I feel like that is how to learn more about ourselves. To never forget, but to forgive, to write and to not write off, ourselves. Not having that external hard drive, can really throw us for a loop, if we cannot even remember something as visceral as an emotion. Not having a journal within arms reach can be hard at first because it is the one place we can collect self, and see eye-to-eye, with our strife and embrace it, independently of outside scrutiny.