AI Boundaries & Mental Health
Recognize when chat is the wrong tool and choose a person or qualified care instead.
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7 min readAI is not therapy: what a language model can and cannot safely do
A green, amber and red guide to choosing between a narrow writing aid, an accountable person and qualified mental-health or crisis support.
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8 min readStop the chat: five situations that need a person, not another prompt
Five recognizable moments — crisis, grief, conflict, high-stakes decisions, and isolation — where continuing the chat is the wrong move. A contact ladder names who to reach instead.
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10 min readAI is not a doctor — and it is not an emergency service
A green/amber/red guide to what a general-purpose chatbot can safely help with around your health, what needs a pharmacist or clinician instead, and what always needs emergency care - with no invented crisis numbers.
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9 min readWhen reflection becomes a reassurance loop
Repeatedly asking a chatbot the same worried question can intensify a reassurance loop. Recognize the pattern, use a pre-committed stopping condition, and move to an appropriate human or offline action.
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9 min readA reflection journal that does not outsource your inner life
A 10-minute private reflection loop that uses AI to organize your own words into observation, interpretation, and one next human action — without letting a chatbot become the judge of your inner life.
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9 min readAfter redundancy or mid-life disruption: use AI for administration, not identity
The day your job ends, urgent paperwork, career questions, and emotional weight can arrive together. Use official sources for deadlines, structured tools for exploration, and people for accountable support; AI may assist with writing but should not replace any of them.
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8 min readName the feeling, check the story: an emotional clarity workflow
A low-stakes worksheet that separates what happened, what you felt, and the story you told yourself about it — so you respond to the facts, not the first draft of the story.
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