Since the start of 2024, I got tired of my inability to grow/change and through anger and happenstance happened to come across a thought that stuck up until now that seems to have the potential to serve as a sort of hub to my problems - something I know where to return to whenever I feel bad so that I can use those emotions to build on the thoughts, concepts and emotions I previously felt to grow them, learning how to deal with the stuff I've never learnt to deal with before.
This thought is the problem map. I categorized 5/6 main problems that cause most of my inabilities and find that during most times I feel bad, it can be lead back to a problem that's based on these 6 main problems. It offers enough structure to have a place to return to, being able to document and find thoughts again that are thankfully not scattered over 100s of unnamed notes, but doesn't feel as rigid so that it can house most problems I have.
I've always kind of struggled with the idea of how to keep this kind of information. Notes are kind of too "1-dimensional". So I thought about making it a mind map instead, but struggled finding a program that would allow making one in a casual way where I could just easily add in nodes, draw connections between them, color them and scale them.
I thought it could help other people if they see their set of problems through my perspective of my set of problems, so I uploaded my problem map here for others to peruse
