Small games, chosen on purpose.
We don't add games just to fill a page. Each one is here because there's research suggesting it can take the edge off a stressful day — and every game links to what it's based on, so you can read it yourself.
When teenagers were asked what a mental-health game should feel like, most said they already play casual games to relax — and asked for simple play and a light touch on the message (Digital Health, 2020). That's what we aim for. A few minutes of play is a small break, not treatment — if things feel heavier than that, here's who you can talk to.
Not games — small practices.
Two short writing exercises from positive psychology, with some of the strongest research behind them. Private: what you write never leaves your browser.
Three Good Things
5 MINWrite down three things that went well today — and why they happened.
In a well-known randomized study, people who wrote down three good things and their causes every evening for one week were happier and less depressed than a placebo group — and the effect was still there six months later. Doing it for a week is the version that was tested.
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10 MINWrite a short note to someone you never properly thanked. Sending it is up to you.
In the same 2005 study, writing and delivering a gratitude letter gave the biggest boost in happiness of all the exercises tested, lasting about a month. Later studies found that writing letters of gratitude benefits the writer, too.
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