Write it down so the day can be heard: World Mental Health Day 2026

World Mental Health Day asks that lived experience be heard. Write the day down in private first, so you know what you would actually say out loud.

Saturday 10 October is World Mental Health Day. This year’s theme is “Lived Experiences Heard: Real Voices, Real Change.” The ask is specific. People with personal experience of mental health conditions should help shape the policies, services, and attitudes that affect their lives. A voice in the room is part of the decision.

That work belongs with people and with the services around them. My Reflections is a private reflection journal. It will not diagnose you, treat you, or speak for you. The useful overlap sits earlier in the day. A moment is easier to describe when you wrote it down while you still remembered it, in words you chose.

Self-reflection is that one moment. Self-awareness is what a run of those moments shows you when you can look back. On a day about being heard, both matter. The clearest thing you can offer is an account you wrote yourself.

Available on Android / iPhone and the web app.

Self-reflection is the moment you can still name

Self-reflection is a short loop, not a personality you either have or lack. In My Reflections the loop is AOR: Action, Observation, Reflection.

You pick what the moment was. A meeting. A wellness check. Something personal. A daily check-in. A longer journal when two lines are not enough. You rate it from 1 to 10. You write what happened. If you want more depth, you add highlights, lowlights, and adjustments: what went well, what did not, and what you would try next time.

The rating lets the next note sit beside this one. The words stay yours. Capture is meant for the gap between one thing ending and the next thing starting. Tags let you find a thread later, such as sleep, a project, or a week that felt heavy, without turning the note into something you perform for other people.

On Saturday, one honest entry is enough. A daily check-in if the day only has a rating and a few lines. A journal entry if it needs more room. On iPhone, dictation stays on the device when typing is the reason you would close the app.

Self-awareness is what the month shows you

One note is a feeling with a date on it. Self-awareness needs a second look, at your own record, on a day you are calmer than the one you wrote about.

Today holds the habit in front of you: your streak, recent notes, and a 30-day view of how ratings are moving. It answers a small question. What still needs writing down before the day cools?

Insights is the longer read. A month summary. Goals, kept to a small set on purpose. A deep dive when you want to ask a stretch of days a proper question. Charts for ratings, activity types, and tone, with every figure opening back to the reflections underneath. A chart you cannot inspect is only a mood with axes.

Used this way, self-awareness is evidence you collected. You can see whether hard weeks cluster around sleep, meetings, or something you had been calling a phase. You can also see the ordinary days, which memory tends to drop.

Sentiment on a note, when it appears, is a mirror on how you wrote. Optional Reflection Bot tone works the same way. Neither one is a reading of your mental health.

Being heard starts with words you chose

This year’s theme is about voice, and about change that follows from it. Policies and services get stronger when people with lived experience are in the decisions from the start. If that is your work, it happens with the organisations and communities built for it. A journal is not that campaign.

What a journal can offer is the sentence before the room. Many people know something is repeating, easing, or getting heavier, and still cannot say it cleanly when someone asks. A note from the day is your wording, attached to a rating and a date. It is harder to tidy into what you think you are supposed to have felt.

Sharing stays a choice you make on purpose:

• A single reflection, when one moment is what you want someone to see.
• A deep dive link, when the pattern matters more than one entry.
• A group ask, when a small circle has agreed to reflect on the same prompt.

Groups are a room with a purpose, kept small so they do not turn into another feed. On Free you can join a group you are invited to, answer what was asked, and keep your own journal. Invite is by link or QR. Reflections stay private until you decide otherwise.

If you need care, talk with a clinician, a service, or a person you trust. The notes can wait. They are not a substitute for support.

Start the seven-day Professional trial

The personal practice does not need a subscription. Free includes unlimited core reflections, Insights, goals, personal tags, and reminders, plus any group you are invited to join. That is enough to write the day down and learn from it.

Professional adds the tools around that practice, and it starts with a 7-day free trial. Then it is USD $2.99 a month. The store may show that price in your local currency.

Use the week if you want any of these:

• Photo journals, for the days that are easier to show than to explain. An image, a rating, and a note, in the same loop as everything else.
• Groups you create and manage: a name, a mission, and an invite by link or QR. Standard groups are up to 5 members. People you invite can join on Free.
• Scheduled reflections. You set a rhythm. The app opens a pending reflection and reminds you on the device. You still rate it and finish it.
• Inbound webhooks, if another tool should open a pending note for you to complete. You still supply the rating and the words.

If you start the trial on iPhone, it renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends, in your Apple ID account settings. After you cancel, you keep Professional until the period ends. If you only want the private notes, stay on Free. The trial is for the week you want a photo, a room you host, or a prompt that meets you after the moment.

More on the two plans: Free to reflect, Professional to lead the room.

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My Reflections is a reflection journal, not therapy or medical advice. Your entries stay private by default; you choose what to share.

Questions? Visit Support or start from Get the app.