What we will and will not tell you

Writing about feelings slides very easily into telling people what is wrong with them. These are the lines we hold, so you know what you are holding when you read a page here.

We describe. We do not diagnose.

A page says what a feeling tends to look like in general. It never says what you have. If you came looking for whether this is a condition, that answer is not on this site, and no amount of reading will make it appear.

Nothing here tells you what to do

You will not find “you should” on a feeling page. The writing hedges on purpose, in oftens and mays and tends to, which makes it read a little cool. That is deliberate. A page knows nothing about your week, so it has no business instructing you about it.

We say where the writing came from

It was generated, not written by clinicians, and we do not dress it up in borrowed authority. How this works sets out the whole process, including the parts that do not flatter us.

Crisis help stays one glance away

Every feeling page carries crisis numbers. The pages about the heaviest feelings put them at the top, ahead of the writing. So does the identify tool, the moment what you type sounds like a crisis.

Nothing here is for sale

No adverts, no products, no service at the end of the funnel, and nothing you type is sold to anyone. If that ever changes, it changes on this page first.

Where we are short

No clinician has reviewed this library, and the pages point to no research behind them. Those are real gaps rather than oversights we have not spotted, and we would rather name them than imply a review that has not happened.