the instructions

A document the well version of you writes for the bad-day version to read. Author and reader are the same person. That is the whole design.

Write on a clear day. Read on a hard one. Everything stays in this file, on your device — nothing is sent, there is no account. Every section is optional. Fill what you know.
1 · early signs

how a bad day announces itself, in my own words

2 · what has helped

things that actually helped before, smallest first

3 · people

who to contact, and what to say if words are hard

4 · what to skip

decisions and actions that wait until this passes

5 · a line to self

one sentence from the well day to the hard one

Keep it

To keep this page: save it (Ctrl/Cmd + S) and open the file anytime. It works with no internet.

A printed copy in a drawer needs no battery, no device, no file.

Restore: paste an exported record below, or choose a file, then import.

Erase

Removes every section from this device. Export first if you want to keep a copy.

This is a document — not therapy, not diagnosis, not a crisis service. It stands in a known tradition of plans written in advance: the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (Mary Ellen Copeland, 1997; studied in a randomized trial, Cook et al. 2012, Schizophrenia Bulletin), psychiatric advance directives (Swanson et al. 2008), and personalized safety plans (Stanley & Brown 2012, Cognitive and Behavioral Practice). If a day feels unsafe, that calls for a person, before any page. The limits of tools like this are listed on the site, at /dangers.
the instructions