When starting with your journal writing it is important that you set some few parameters to your work. 1st there are no age limit to writing a good journal.
There are equaly a loads of distinct benefits to writing a journal as it is for the children and adults. Reasons for this are because journals are there to compliment a personal life of an individual in reflection to it's daily happenings.
Be it a teenager reflecting on things and event of the day, journals are ment to put every individual who practice it on a reflection time out on the things of life.
Another thing to note with journal writing is that it is by far the cheapest psychiatric expedition you can take on your life and what it has become in the long run of living it out day by day in writing.
With the consatnt act of putting your daily life on paper you will get the chance at reviewing your life by self critisizing the current events and yet design a better way of handling such situation whenever they may arise again.
Journal writing can also be of health benefits to you, put yourself in this position in your past when you have to visit your friend to talk about your feelings because getting things out of your chest is good for you as it is for every body else.
what role do you think a journal will do in replacing your friends in this situation wtih you and you alone critisizing yourself in a pleasant manner will you put it on paper.
Some other points will make up for a reason to write a journal but above all it allows you the privacy you need to express yourself without being the butt of a joke or judgement.