🧪 Mental Health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Simulation

This simulation gives cognitive behavioral therapy's "hot cross bun" model a real dynamical engine: four coupled nodes — Thought, Emotion, Physiology, Behavior — evolve under a live system of feedback equations rendered as orbiting 3D nodes with particle-flow edges showing the cycle in motion. Trigger an automatic negative thought, pick a cognitive distortion (catastrophizing, mind-reading, all-or-nothing thinking, overgeneralization) that reshapes how the loop reinforces itself, and watch distress, physiological arousal and avoidance behavior escalate together when the loop gain exceeds 1. Applying the CBT reframing intervention doesn't just reset the display — it weakens the Thought→Emotion coupling and adds direct emotional damping, the same two levers real cognitive restructuring pulls, collapsing the loop gain and letting the whole system decay back to baseline.