We tried that with my husband today, He was asked to write everything he should be grateful for. And none could include our son the family thearapest asked a half hour later for use to return our list and my husband handed over a blank piece of paper. I had about 20 things like being alive food and other things and the therapist asked my husband why he had left his sheet blank and he said just what was I supposed to write am I thankful for my life the answer is no, was I thankful for my work career, he said if I was not treated as a slave maybe I might have been thankful. As for friends the only ones I had all ran when you and my father decided I was a slave. He said thankful for the hope of the future. He said, After MRSA in his spine what future does he really have, Thankul he said he could find no facet of his life to be thankful for except our son. so that left him nothing to be thankful for.