This past week has been quite hard on my mental health...I've had a lot more negative thoughts than positive ones, and I just haven't been feeling very well on an emotional level this past week...I hope things will start changing for the better soon, because I don't know how much more of this mental Hell I can take...
That's not an approach for everyone, though, and I also recommend just... casually throwing out ideas to friends. Have a back-and-forth exchange of ideas and idle thoughts. It'll get your own thoughts flowing.