As someone who has struggled quite a bit with mental health problems in the past, I quite like the concept! This might actually be a nice gamification approach to exercise a daily positive thinking routine or something. Some thoughts on that (DISCLAIMER: These are very unqualified opinions).
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Some of the quotes seemed a little cheesy to me, but I realize that’s very subjective. It might be nice to have the user be able to input their own phrases which they know are helpful to them.
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I think a main part of trying to stay positive is identifying your own destructive thoughts and doing something about them. From a gameplay perspective, it would also be nice to have negative thoughts coming at you that you need to disarm, since it would actually force you to read the thoughts coming at you and not just click at them blindly. HOWEVER, I do realize that this is a bit risky, considering the pink elephant paradox is something that does exist, so you’d have to be somewhat careful about the implementation, especially since I think some coping techniques work better for some people than others.
It might be interesting to get some input on this from people who have more experience with psychology. Still, I quite like the idea here. Nice job!