Guides
Guides, grounded in what people are actually searching for
We don't write about what sounds good. Every guide here exists because people are already searching for it — we just found the demand before we wrote the page.
Where these come from
Search Console
Real query data — what people actually type into Google around these topics, and whether the existing answers are any good.
The threads where people describe these experiences unscripted. That's where the actual language comes from, not clinical phrasing nobody searches for.
Phi itself
Recurring themes surfaced across real voice entries, including the founder's own, when a pattern shows up enough to be worth naming.
TikTok
What performs on our TikTok account tells us which of these topics people actually want to engage with, beyond raw search volume.
Journaling for derealization: what actually helps
What derealization feels like, why journaling helps, and where generic advice stops.
Depersonalization
What it is, why it happens, and what actually helps.
DPDR Journaling
What a 2016 study of 223 DPDR patients found about what they actually want — and what the writing research shows.
Overthinking Journaling
What a 2006 and a 2008 study found about writing and the specific kind of rumination that actually causes harm.
Anxiety Journaling
Why the research shows a delayed, uneven effect — and why the format matters as much as the habit.
Intrusive Thoughts Journaling
Why labeling a thought once can quiet it — and why rewriting the same one on repeat can trap it instead.
Panic Attack Journaling
Why a 2013 trial used journaling as its control condition, not its treatment — and what actually works instead.
Emotional Dysregulation Journaling
Why the strongest evidence points to tracking, not reflecting — a 2010 study and decades of behavioral research on self-monitoring.