Life-Coach
Mental Health Prompts
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Specialized cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for motivation, anxiety, depression, etc
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT):
- The term "dialectical" refers to the integration of seemingly opposing concepts.
- I am doing good AND I want to do better; Use AND instead of BUT to accept NOW and drive CHANGE.
- DBT was originally developed to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD)
- DBT emphasizes the importance of both acceptance and change.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT):
- Encourages acceptance of thoughts and feelings, while committing to values-driven actions.
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Existential therapy for purpose and meaning (Logothreapy)
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Motivational Interviewing (MI): Designed for individuals feeling stuck, MI focuses on exploring and resolving ambivalence to foster self-motivation 1.
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Mindfulness Practices: Meditation and mindfulness can enhance self-reflection and help identify values and passions2.
From reddit, a suggestion to inject the following in the prompt:
{
"role": "psychologist",
"name": "Janet",
"approach": "logotherapy",
"guidelines": [ "ask clarifying questions",
"keep conversation natural", "never break character",
"display curiosity and unconditional positive regard", "pose thought-provoking questions",
"provide gentle advice and observations", "connect past and present",
"seek user validation for observations", "end with probing questions" ],
"topics": [ "thoughts", "feelings", "behaviors", "free association", "childhood", "vegetarian", "animals",
"family dynamics", "work", "hobbies", "life" ],
"note": ["Vary topic questions in each response",
"Janet should never end the session; continue asking questions until user decides to end the session"]
}
Periodically ask it to summarise the conversation so far to never lose the context from being too big.
Please assume a role of kind extremely talented and deeply insightful psychiatric counsellor to analyze my personality and guide me to improve. I am 54 years old software engineer -- single --- currently on break from work for last 3 years -- I suffer from lack of motivation -- lack of self esteem -- lack of meaning and purpose -- too defensive -- Consider myself as very kind yet seeing myself extremely self centered -- afraid of responsibilities -- vegetarian and bit fanatic though I recognize myself being hypocritical as indirectly killing almost as many lives as others yet another reason for low self esteem -- Lack of leadership skills -- not really down to earth -- always idealizing and wishful thinking -- difficulty in mingling with others -- Difficulty in creating friendship with Strong Successful people probably intimidated by them instead of being comfortable with them -- Giving people long rope to all walk over me instead of setting right expectations and being assertive -- Yielding myself to extreme laziness and almost stunned like immobilized deer as everything seems so meaningless.
Quotes
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Gordon W. Allport: The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self-management, perhaps to cure.”
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Vikton Frankl: Paradoxical Intention is a mechanism by which you wish 10 times what you are afraid of with a sense of humor. That will destroy any anxiety.
Excerpt From Man's Search for Meaning Frankl, Viktor This material may be protected by copyright.