FeelingsHelper Adults Mode
Free psychoeducational self-help companions for autistic adults: burnout, masking, PTSD, trauma protectors, executive functioning, energy pacing, and relationships. No account, nothing stored on a server.
What this mode is
Adults Mode collects the FeelingsHelper companions written for grown-ups navigating autism, ADHD, PTSD, complex trauma, addiction recovery, burnout, and relationships. Every companion is plain-language psychoeducation you can work through at your own pace, alone or alongside a licensed clinician.
Privacy
Everything you type stays in your own browser using local storage. No account, no sign-up, no Protected Health Information, and nothing transmitted to an external server. Aligned with COPPA and HIPAA expectations.
Not therapy
FeelingsHelper is free psychoeducational self-help and a clinical adjunct. It is not therapy, diagnosis, or crisis care and does not replace a licensed clinician. In a crisis, call or text 988 in the United States.
Companion pages in this mode
- Rejection Sensitivity — Catch, cool, and recover from an RSD spike before it costs you something.
- Autistic Masking — See what masking actually costs you, then plan safe, selective unmasking.
- Trauma Protectors — Understand the survival parts — pleasing, numbing, control — and what they protect.
- Executive Functioning — Prioritizing, time blindness, task switching, and finishing — built for work stakes.
- Autistic Burnout — Tell burnout apart from depression, find the real drains, and plan a recovery that holds.
- Cognitive Distortions — Name the thinking trap, test it against evidence, and write a balanced alternative.
- Inner Critic — Separate the critical voice from yourself, find what it protects, and answer it.
- PTSD Self-Help — Map triggers, see what avoidance costs, and build grounding that holds.
- Neurodiverse Couples — Translate between neurotypes and break the pursue-withdraw loop.
- Grief Support — Grief in waves, not stages — map triggers and keep the bond.
- Sensory Overload at Work — Audit what work actually costs you and plan accommodations that help.
- Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn — Identify your default trauma response and the recovery strategy that matches it.
- Social Cues for Adults — Practice reading ambiguous social situations and asking without awkwardness.
- REBT & Flexible Thinking — Turn rigid musts and shoulds into preferences that survive contact with reality.
- Ikigai & Purpose — A worked ikigai process built for monotropic focus and fluctuating capacity.
- Recovery Compass — Map triggers, function, values, and a lapse plan you write before you need it.
- Costs of Addiction — An honest cost-benefit sheet you can read back at the moment of craving.
- Relationship Connection — Build a love map, convert complaints into requests, and rehearse repair.
- Difficult Times Resilience (Adults) — Triage the basics, name the interest rate, plan one week.
- Financial Freeze Triage (Adults) — Unfreeze around money: somatic un-sticking, scripts, and neurotype-matched steps.
- My Unwritten Social Code Companion (18+) — The hidden social curriculum of adult life, written down: 116 rules, a six-building map, branching stories, masking budget and repair workshop.
- My Sports Betting Companion (18+) — Harm reduction for sports betting: 20-minute urge timer, educational severity check-in, weekly risk map, pre-commitment limits, slip log and an athlete cockpit.
- My Athlete Burnout Companion (18+) — Athlete burnout work for football, cross country and track: weekly load and recovery tracking, recoverable asks for coaches, must-catching, identity and meaning tools.
- My Sleep Hygiene Companion (18+) — CBT-I-based adult sleep work: stimulus control, sleep diary and efficiency, guarded sleep windows with a six-hour floor, phone lab and counter-arousal protocols.