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Values

Identify your needs and choose a helpful response.

July 23, 2026

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Poster titled 'When I Want to Escape' with sections for different feelings like numbness, comfort, stimulation, connection, release, sleep, and permission to stop. Each section lists feelings and actions to take instead.
Identify your needs and choose a helpful response.
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A person stands before a glowing pause symbol with areas labeled relationships, work, hobbies, body care, art, and joy. Text contrasts depression's messages like 'stay still' with values' messages like 'begin small.'
Shift from depression's pause to values-driven action.
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A poster titled 'When Everything Feels Pointless' with a person sitting on a rock in a vast landscape. It contrasts depression's distorted judgments with value-based questions to guide actions. Includes examples of reframing questions to express values, reduce burdens, reconnect with the world, and experiment usefully.
Shift focus from pleasure to values for direction.
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A person walks towards an open door with sunlight and nature outside, leaving behind a dark room filled with shadowy figures.
Choosing a path towards light and growth.
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A four-panel illustration titled 'The Compass in the Storm' showing a person navigating through a storm. Panel 1: The Weather, with words like fear and grief. Panel 2: Chasing the Storm, with signs pointing in different directions. Panel 3: Finding the Compass, showing a compass with values like kindness and courage. Panel 4: Walking by Values, with the person walking towards a lighthouse. Text reads: 'Feelings describe conditions; values provide direction.'
Navigate emotional storms with your values as a compass.
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A poster titled 'When everything feels Pointless' shows a person with depression and a clock-like mind measuring activities by anticipated pleasure. It suggests asking questions like 'Does this express a value?', 'Does it reduce tomorrow's burden?', 'Does it reconnect me with the world?', and 'Is it a useful experiment?' to find meaning.
Shift focus from anticipated pleasure to meaningful actions.
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Poster titled 'Life on Pause' with a large pause button and a person sitting beneath it. Surrounding are words like relationships, work, hobbies, body care, art, and joy. Text includes 'Depression says wait. Values say begin small.' and 'Begin with motion, not motivation.' Small actions are listed: stand up, open the blinds, eat something, step outside, do five minutes, text one person, touch one valued project.
Press play on small actions to re-enter life.
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Poster titled 'Anhedonia is a Fog, Not a Verdict' with steps to manage anhedonia: 1. Name it, 2. Don’t wait to feel like it, 3. Follow values, not mood, 4. Re-enter life in tiny ways. Includes a foggy path leading to warmth, with re-entry ideas like stepping outside and listening to a song.
Navigate through anhedonia with small, value-driven steps.
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Poster titled 'Depression Shrinks Life' showing a path from darkness to light with steps to openness and contact with life. Includes actions like opening a curtain and stepping outside.
Open up your world, one small step at a time.
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Posters for values — short visual prompts for noticing, naming, and choosing.

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