I read this wonderful book by Elizabeth Gilbert called Eat, Pray, Love. Insightful, not to say more. And there are these chapters about her fighting with Depression and Loneliness which many of us can relate to (myself included).
Specifically, Elizabeth shares the piece on her journaling, or rather chatting with herself. How it helped her to get out of the pit of despair and kick away the internal demons.
That pushed me to drop a quick script to try to do the same in my terminal (because I'm a developer, or rather because I don't have a notebook around).
And it actually worked. And that helped me. At least today.
So I decided to share it here, as I noticed this new March tag yesterday. Maybe it would be of some use for someone.
I mean, probably that's bloody stupid, both the idea and definitely the code, but for some reason it works. And as the terminal is apparently not the most positive place to be in the world, this script may make it more acceptable sometimes.
Cheers π€
fyodorio
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chat-with-yourself
Healing self-talk through Node-based CLI
Chat with yourself
Getting started
- Open your terminal app
- Install Node.js (or Bun, or Deno, or whatever JS runtime you prefer) if it's not there
- Clone this repo with
git cd chat-with-yourself- Run:
node chat.js
You'll need to enter two names for the chatting persons and start the chat. When you want to stop chatting, enter byebye and the script will stop execution. The resulting chat text will be saved as a markdown file in the root folder. (The generated files are gitignored by default.)
Supports different languages (well, some at least), and emojis π
Inspiration behind the project
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love, Chapter 18
Or, rather β here I am. I am in Rome, and I am in trouble. The goons of Depression and Loneliness have barged into my life again, and I just took my last Wellbutrin three days ago. There are more pills inβ¦
Top comments (29)
First of all, not stupid at all! Journaling is a pretty solid mindfulness technique and you made it fun and nerdy (itβs a bloody good thing in my book).
And most importantly: are you okay? You know where to find me if you need some random person to talk to about anything π
Thanks a lot Valeria, and I truly appreciate asking β€οΈ It's grand, unless reading Elizabeth Gilbert is not a sign of something damn serious π
Awesome! π€© I donβt think so, but I read her too, so better check π
This is a great idea, and sometimes we need to talk to someone regardless of their reality status (it's a joke). Just letting it all out is the way to go.
I'm glad to hear it helped you, and I'm sure it will help others. We are here for you and all those who need it. We all have times when we need a moment to fall apart and build up again (guilty as charged).
i will contact you, i have ideas for this project ;)
Sure, thanks π I mean, I hope that's not OpenAI integration π€π
A beautifully simple concept, I like it!
Thank you for creating, Chat with yourself, @fyodorio! This is an outstanding and powerful tool, in my opinion. I'm sure it will come in handy for me when times are hard. I must have forgotten to comment but I have already sent over a βοΈ
Thank you again!
Thanks Travis! That's the tool I truly hope nobody will ever need π But... This life...
I love it. Thank you for creating this.
This is just amazing!
Had good fun playing! :)
Thanks, that's really cool, I mean that's exactly the initial purpose of it π
This is so good! What a fun way to have started my day! :)
I can't wait to see it!
If it helped you, it's definitely not stupid at all!