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🧪 Mental Health Cognitive Therapy Simulation

A double-well potential-energy model of mood: watch a ball representing your emotional state roll through a landscape shaped by catastrophizing, negative belief strength and negativity bias, then apply cognitive reappraisal to flatten the well and pull the state back toward a stable, neutral mood.

Medical Technology & Imaging Physics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted

This simulation demonstrates the principles of cognitive therapy by modeling emotional well-being as a ball rolling through a distress-potential landscape shaped by cognitive distortions. Catastrophizing, entrenched negative beliefs and negativity bias each reshape the landscape into a deep, hard-to-escape negative-mood well; the reappraisal control lets you explore how actively countering those distorted thinking patterns — the core mechanism of cognitive therapy — flattens that landscape and pulls the emotional state back toward a stable, neutral baseline even under everyday stress.

⚙ Under the hood

This simulation demonstrates the principles of cognitive therapy. It allows users to explore how changing their thinking patterns can impact their emotional well-being.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install