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The free tool below runs entirely in this browser — no account, nothing stored or transmitted. Redact anything you would not want kept before you type it.
Open the companion tool →Why the line matters
A general chatbot is built to be agreeable and fluent, which feels like a good listener. But it is not licensed, it does not keep a treatment record, and it cannot be accountable for your care the way a qualified person can.
Support — venting, organizing thoughts, naming feelings — is genuinely useful and worth keeping. Treatment — diagnosis, medication questions, crisis plans, self-harm — is where a chatbot must hand you to a human, and where a chatbot that keeps you instead is failing you.
The protocol
- List what you typically ask the chatbot and what it typically answers.
- Read the boundary basis: which uses are support and which are treatment-shaped.
- Keep the support uses; route the treatment-shaped ones to a qualified human.
- If anything involves self-harm, use the 988 line now — do not take that to a chatbot.
What the tool does
Review what you ask a chatbot and what it answers, and get a boundary reading with the support-versus-treatment line shown. It runs in this browser; nothing is sent or stored.
Limit first: This is a boundary aid, not therapy and not medical or legal advice. It cannot tell you what is wrong with you, and it does not replace a qualified professional. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 now.
Open the companion tool →One human next step
Route treatment-shaped questions to a licensed professional. If self-harm or crisis is involved, call or text 988 now — not a chatbot.
Research log and safety checks
AI-assist path: not applicable — the tool's job is to mark a boundary between chatbot use and human care; adding another AI layer to do that would reproduce the confusion it warns about. §6.10: not a frontier-pace topic.
§0.5 protection result: category is chatbot-dependency-check; crisis-adjacent: no; fear/urgency/scarcity toolkit used: no. The protective function is free and the paid feature is convenience only.