Mental Health Themes Writing Prompts

A schizophrenic man gets sick of the voice in his head and asks it to start paying rent if it wants to live there. The next morning he finds an envelope filled with cash on his desk.

Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa.

You are born without emotions; to compensate this, you started a donation box where people could donate their unwanted emotions. You've lived a life filled with sadness, fear and regret until one day, someone donates happiness.

A depressed guy moves into a haunted house with 7 demons, each corresponding to a deadly sin. But, they're all trying to help him get back on his feet; Pride helps with self confidence, Lust helps him get laid, etc.

Time travel exists. By law, every citizen is given one day they may repeat on loop until they get it right. This morning, you found your spouse looking exhausted and crying. "I can't save you. I've tried hundreds of times."

You have been told all your life that you have a rare medical condition. It means you need regular special meals that your family has lovingly prepared. You now find out that your "condition" actually requires fresh human flesh and your family have become serial killers to keep you alive.

You accidentally kill a person. You instantly absorb all of their memories, intelligence, and talents. You find it feels euphoric and quite addicting.

A creature that eats emotions met you, and was horrified when it tasted your chronic depression. Today marks its 24th attempt to cure you with seasoning.

After being kidnapped you wake up in a room where the only thing to keep you occupied is a computer with access to just wikipedia. After 2 years you are taken to an illegal gameshow as 1 of 10 contestants, if you are eliminated, you die.

You have lived an unimpressive life, and died an unimpressive death. Surprisingly, Odin welcomes you into Valhalla, citing the many battles with depression you fought.

You stare at the pills in your hand. The doctor taps his foot impatiently. "These will really cure me of hearing that voice?" you ask. The doctor rolls his eyes. "Yes, you'll never hear her again." You level your gaze on the doctor. "I never told anyone the voice was female..."

You're a prison psychiatrist being yelled at by your boss; every supervillain you've treated has gotten over their obsessions and hang ups, and become vastly more efficient and dangerous once free.

You are known as the Prison Necromancer, feared by inmates all over the world. Contrary to rumours, you are just a healer. Your job? Keep those punished with multiple life sentences alive and 'sane' for their entire sentence.

"To cure his phobia of fire, I had him study fire magic. Unfortunately he's still deathly afraid, but at least his magic has... interesting properties."

A cruel prank by your bullies leaves you separated from the rest of the class. Instead of finding your way back, you decide to "go missing" and let the consequences catch up to them.

Bruce Wayne decides to get therapy and contacts well-respected Dr. Quinzel, eventually revealing his secret identity to her. He didn’t expect to accidentally acquire a sidekick.

A Psychopath gets teleported into the world of a cheesy romance novel. In order to escape he needs to play the role of the main character, but due to his lack of conscience and empathy things don't go as planned.

It’s been 125 years since you were given $1 million and immortality in exchange for being hunted down by a super-intelligent snail with a fatal touch. Everyone you knew at the time have since passed. You are tired of running. The thing is, in the past 125 years, you haven’t seen the snail once.

A Superhero who doesn't wear a mask is the scariest. If you can see their face or know their identity, it probably means someone has already got to their loved ones and taken them from the hero. What do they have left to lose at that point?

You’re a therapist for a superhero, and know all of his fears nobody else knows. At night, you become a super villain and realize you don’t want to tarnish your reputation by ruining your patient confidentiality agreement.

Your best friend killed you. It happened, but you both knew it was an honest accident. You forgive them and return as a ghost to help them cover their tracks to avoid, at best, a manslaughter charge.

The creature reached out and touched your forehead, "I will feast on your FEAR!" it shouted. Moments later it recoiled and stood whimpering in front of you. "You....you live like this?" it asked, crying....

You are a hero with severe anger management and self control issues. Despite this, and because of immense effort on your part, you are mainly known for your calm and collected nature. But today a villain has finally to cross the line.

While fighting, the villain notices somethings off with the hero. When they ask, the hero breaks down and tells the villain everything leaving them enraged.

People on the autism spectrum are resistant to completely immune to eldritch knowledge's sanity degradation effect due to their brains being "properly attuned" to recieve and process it.

You were coerced into entering a labyrinth to save someone you thought you loved but after being lost for over a century... unaging... undying... all thanks to the magic of the labyrinth you're beyond exhausted and are forced to wonder if it was even worth it.

"I like you, but you have to swallow that god complex of yours and remember you're human like the rest of us."

A timid and bashful lab worker accidentally ingests multiple doses of a drug meant to enhance libido. Describe the horror and internal struggle at the gradual loss of control she experiences as she witnesses herself slowly sliding towards a life of pussy-juice-covered self-pleasure junkie.

You are the bane of every telepath, with a completely unreadable mind. Not because you have any special powers, but rather because your mind is such a mess of mental illnesses and psychological disorders that just attempting to read it is torturously painful.

Your house is Haunted by a dangerous entity. However, you're so overworked and depressed that nothing the entity does can even phase you anymore