Before a single skill: a short, validated questionnaire, because mood shifts have more than one possible cause and this program is built for exactly one of them. I'll tell you exactly why, and exactly what happens either way, before you answer a thing.
I'm Ruth, your coach through this program. Before anything else, I'm going to ask you to answer a short questionnaire — and I want to tell you exactly why, because most programs don't.
Mood shifts have more than one possible cause. This program is built for shifts that move fast — within a day, or across a few days. Other patterns move on a slower clock, weeks or months, and need medical care first, not a skills app. The two can look alike early on, so we check — with a validated questionnaire, the kind used in clinics — before going further.
Most people move straight into the program from here. If your answers point the other way, here's exactly what happens: clear information about that pattern, and a genuine, strong referral to a clinician who can evaluate it properly. That's not a door closing on you — self-guided work simply isn't the safe next step for that pattern, before that evaluation. And it isn't permanent: once you've been evaluated, you're welcome back.
There's no wrong answer. Only the right next step for you.
If your screen is negative: welcome to the actual program. Six weeks, in a fixed order — seeing the shape of your shifts, aiming your whole skills toolkit at them, building stability habits underneath, then reading your own weeks to see what actually works. The engine is a fifteen-second check-in, three times a day, plus a short skill-use log each evening. Every week, your volatility index and skill-correlation chart grow with your own data.
One thing has nothing to do with today's questionnaire: crisis support stays pinned, one tap away, the entire time you're in this program — no matter what happens with the screen below.