It was suggested by my therapist that one way of coping with anxiety and depression are journal prompts.
The point seems to be to have a purpose when journaling. So instead of writing down whatever one is thinking and feeling, take a specific topic to write about and focus on that.
I think it’s an interesting idea. So, what are some good journal prompts?
With no particular authority (or endorsement), just what I’ve used:
Something I’m grateful for.
An update on a (usually work related) project I care about.
A cool program I learned about recently.
A policy that really would make life better.
What a particular emotion feels like to me, where it happens, and an image that fits it (use a list of emotions from somewhere).
What I spent the most time on that day, and how I think my relationship with it is.
A haiku (or 3) about something that happened today.
Game design ideas
I like a lot of your ideas, especially stuff to be grateful for and how an emotion is experienced. Thanks!
I’ve done ease in technique in Journaling if basically starting off with almost random gibberish and then rolling into actual journal content. For this to work you really need to just sit down and starting doodling or typing and eventually your mind sets into a mode where you want to write something actually meaningful!
NB: I have no reasonable argument for why this would be therapeutic, I just think it’d be an interesting read.
Write something fictional about what scares you, but from the point of view of the scary thing.
Scared of spiders? A story about a spider just doing it’s usual before suddenly stumbling upon a godzillesque creature of deafening screams that attacks the protagonist with a shoe.
Scared of rejection? Write a story about someone doing the rejecting, and how conflicting it feels.
Scared of water? A story about a crab who’s sick of hoomans crashing through his ceiling when he’s trying to chill in peace.
