Writing Letters

[Jules0408]

I have found a good way to let out some pent up emotions is writing letters, I finally sat down and wrote my dad a letter about a year ago letting out most of the things I had kept hidden since I was 12. I managed to make it loving, telling him that even though he caused me a lot of pain I would never let it hold me back anymore. I sent it but never heard anything back. Oh well.

I even wrote a small one to the work guy, I'll never send it since it was just a fling but, when I finished I felt a huge weight was gone. I know I screwed up with our thing and am the main cause for us no longer being friends and this was a way for me to get out all the guilt and some pain. Maybe this was what I needed to move on.

For now I feel better :)

 

[roaminggnome]

I am always writing letters. But with mine I don't send them instead I tear them up. Unless it is a letter to my therapist then I give it to her most of the time. Letters are a way of getting my feelings out so that they are not bottled up inside fermenting. They are a release of guilt, shame, pain, and fear. I'll never stop writing. I express myself better that way. @Jules0408 keep on writing!

 

[Jules0408]

I used to use a journal but only got frustrated because I felt I was writing the same things almost everytime so it made me feel like I wasn't going anywhere or that I was too stuck and in some way refused to let go. I may take it up again, even of I'm writing the same things, at least it is out right?

 

[roaminggnome]

I think you are right by getting the emotions out whether it be in letter form or in a journal. I don't use a journal because I live with my dad who would read it. So I write letters instead. If you try the journal and it doesn't work for you there are always letters. I think the point is that by putting it down on paper you are getting it out of your head. I know that I feel better after writing a letter.

 

[Meadowsweet]

I've been writing and re-drafting a letter since December :oops:. It's to a woman who helped cover up what happened. I find it difficult to reconcile because I don't know if she did it in full knowledge or if she was manipulated and told stories about what happened. I just want to tell her the reality. I'd like to be brave enough to finish it and send it, but I feel that I would possibly put myself through hell in anticipation of the fall out from such an action.

But it brings me strength to write what happened down, and to state that what happened to me was wrong. It is quite a powerful thing to write that 'it was wrong'.

 

[Jules0408]

I always do feel a bit stronger when I get it out.Like I said, I just hate that it seems all my journaling is so repetitive. So I end up feeling shitty because it looks like I'm stuck and cannot let go so I give up.

I'm glad its helping you guys :) I love writing and can get lost in it, I just need to find that zone