- Can you see beyond where you are now to a better future?
- Describe a situation where you cared for someone else. How did it make you feel?
- Describe your “perfect” day – what would you do and who would you do it with?
- Describe your biggest accomplishment in life so far
- How are your current circumstances affecting your mental health?
- How do you think depression holds you back in life?
- How would you describe yourself to a stranger?
- If some of your depression is being caused by anger you’ve felt helpless to act on, write an angry letter. (You don’t have to send it.)
- If you could spend time with someone, living or dead, from your past – What would you do? What would you say? Why?
- If you knew you could not fail, what is one thing you would do with your life?
- List 3 things that you love about yourself
- Name 3 songs that help to lift your mood when you feel low
- Name 5 things you are grateful for
- Name something you are looking forward to: this week, this month and this year
- Rate your current mental health on a scale of 1-10. Why do you think it is this way?
- Share a favourite quote and how it inspires you
- Talk about a difficult time in your life that you managed to overcome
- Talk about a happy memory
- Talk about a person you aspire to be like and why
- Talk about your most meaningful friendship
- What are you tolerating that you shouldn’t be?
- What are your greatest qualities?
- What did you achieve today?
- What do you wish more people knew about you and why?
- What does self care mean to you? What are your favourite ways to practice self care?
- What is something your depression has taught you that you might not otherwise know?
- What is the biggest challenge you are facing in your life right now?
- What is the thing you are afraid to say out loud?
- What made you happy today?
- What trait do you admire in others? Talk about the ways in which you see this trait in yourself
- What was the best compliment you ever received? Do you agree – why?
- What was your biggest failure in life and what did you learn from it?
- What would you like your life to look like in 5, 10 and 20 years? What steps can you take to get there?
- What would you write, if you didn’t feel like you would be judged for it?
- When did you start to lose interest in things? How far back can you trace these feelings?
- Write a letter of forgiveness to someone who hurt you.
- Write a letter of forgiveness to yourself.
- Write a letter to somebody who wronged you. Explain how it made you feel and practice forgiving them and letting it go
- Write a letter to your younger self. What would they need to hear from you?
- Write a list of things that are holding you back from your goals. How can you overcome them?
- Write a thank you letter to your body
- Write about a need you know someone has, and describe how you could help alleviate their suffering.
- Write about something you know to be true.
- Write down the things that you know trigger your depression, and which strategies help each of them
- Write down three things you want to read back when things get hard
- Write what you wish someone would say to you.
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