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title: Self rationalisation
description: I've written my diary since 2008, and it's now like a friend to me, someone I can share my deepest, darkest, maddest thoughts with.
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# [Self rationalisation](https://www.campbellacademy.co.uk/blog/self-rationalisation)

 Written by [Colin Campbell](https://www.campbellacademy.co.uk/blog/author/colin-campbell) | 25/04/25 17:00

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I write a diary to myself, not every day by any means, only when I need it.

It's not a review of events that have happened; it's a discussion with myself or at least another side of myself. 

It allows me to self-rationalise about things that I'm neurotic about; when I'm worried about patient cases or money or anything like that, I can write it down to myself. 

I can go back to periods that I wrote about before and realise that that, too, did pass; I can realise that sometimes anticipating stress is not the best course of action (almost all the time). 

I've written my diary since 2008, and it's now like a friend to me, someone I can share my deepest, darkest, maddest thoughts with.

No one will ever find it; it will die with me. 

You should try it. It helps.

 

Blog Post Number - 4150

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