I have a regular blog.  One where I post pictures of Peanut and tell what we have been doing.  I pretend that everything is happy and wonderful and peaceful and perfect.  No one knows how much I suffer in silence from problems with anxiety.  I worry so much I make myself sick.  I worry over every single little thing until I am wringing my hands and pacing.  I must keep myself very busy to keep my mind from finding new things to worry about.

So I decided to start a new blog.  One where I could be anonymous.  I didn’t tell my family and real life friends about it.  The only people who read my blog (I THINK!) are people who have never met me in real life.  But it feels good.  I write about all of the stuff I worry and stress over.  Things that I don’t want people I know in real life to know about.  And every single time I post about my latest anxiety or panic attack- I feel better instantly.  And then when I get comments or emails about people who have gone through or are going through what I am, I know that is why I do this.

Today I found about about MyTherapyJournal.com where you can keep an online journal that is private so that you can feel safe and protected.  There are a lot of journaling benefits which you can read about on their site.  There are health care providers who use their services in addition to the military and soldiers returning from the war who have PTSD.  There are thousands of members who have joined America’s #1 source of online journaling.  Journaling can be a very healing process and I hope you’ll give it a try.