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Mind & Mental Health

Plain-language guides to emotions, anxiety, trauma, overwhelm, therapy language, and finding the right kind of support.

Mental-health language can help us understand ourselves, but it can also feel clinical, vague, or frightening. This section will translate difficult ideas into ordinary words without turning a guide into a diagnosis.

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A child sits beside his mother with one hand on his chest as a warm glow and the words dhuk dhuk represent the fast heartbeat he associates with anxiety.

Mind & Mental Health

The “Dhuk Dhuk” in His Chest

Teaching My Son What Anxiety Means—One Small Win at a Time

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The heading Comparing Anxiety versus Autistic Anxiety: Key Differences and Overlaps, on a pale blue illustrated background.

Mind & Mental Health

Anxiety on the Spectrum

A personal reflection on living with social anxiety, autistic overwhelm, and the relief that can come from finally finding words for what is happening.

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A child-friendly guide to Kabbo’s energy coins: wake up with what you have, every task uses energy, and rest can save energy while a big day may borrow it from tomorrow.

Mind & Mental Health

Kabbo’s Energy Theory: Borrowing From Tomorrow

A child-created model for understanding daily energy, rest, borrowing from tomorrow, and what repeated energy debt can teach us about burnout.

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What you will find here

Understand the words

Clear explanations of commonly used mental-health and therapy terms, including what they can mean and what they do not automatically mean.

Notice patterns

Visual comparisons and everyday examples that can help a reader describe an experience more clearly.

Find a next step

Questions to consider, kinds of support that may exist, and signs that professional or urgent help may be appropriate.

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First guides being prepared

These titles are the editorial roadmap. A guide will become public only after its important factual claims have clear, suitable sources.

  1. Stress, anxiety, panic, and overwhelm
  2. Trauma responses without shame
  3. CBT, CPT, and other therapy language
  4. Preparing to speak with a mental-health professional

Before an article is published

The reader should be able to see

  • what the article discusses and any content note;
  • which statements are evidence, general guidance, or personal reflection;
  • where location-specific health or legal information applies;
  • the sources used and when the page was last reviewed; and
  • where qualified or urgent support can be found when the subject requires it.

This collection provides general education. It does not diagnose, investigate, or replace individual medical, legal, therapeutic, or crisis support.