Care
A place to reflect, held with care.
If you are in crisis right now
You deserve real support, today.
- Call or text 988
Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, United States, free and open 24 hours
- Text 988
If talking out loud is hard right now
- Outside the US
Call your local emergency number, or find a helpline at findahelpline.com
- Find a therapist
Search licensed therapists near you (Psychology Today directory)
If you are in immediate danger, call 911 in the US or your local emergency number.
What Daystrata is
A reflection tool. Not therapy, not medical care.
Daystrata helps you write about your days and notice your own patterns. It is not a therapist, a counselor, a doctor, or a crisis service. It does not diagnose, treat, or assess anything, and it is not a substitute for professional care.
If journaling here surfaces something you want to talk through, a licensed therapist is a good next step. You can find one near you, or ask your doctor for a referral.
How reflections are written
Kind, observational, and never a label.
- Reflections are one or two sentences that say back what was noticed, in your own terms.
- They never diagnose or name a condition, and never tell you what you are.
- Patterns say “noticed”, not “you are”, and cite the entries they came from so you can check them.
- Our care lead, a licensed clinical social worker, reviews the reflection guidelines with the team every month using test entries our staff write. Your entries are never read to do it.
When a day is very hard
The crisis path.
Every entry passes a care screen before any AI model reads it. If an entry contains signs of crisis or thoughts of self-harm, Daystrata does not analyze it. Instead it:
- responds warmly and briefly, and says plainly that you deserve real support;
- shows crisis resources: in the US, call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline; elsewhere, your local emergency number or a helpline from findahelpline.com;
- offers a link to find a therapist;
- draws that entry as a calm, plain stratum, never a playful artwork, and leaves it out of pattern reports.
The screen errs on the side of care. If it shows resources when you did not need them, nothing is lost: your words are saved as you wrote them, and you can keep writing.
Privacy
Your journal is yours.
- Private by default. There is no sharing feature, no feed, no public profile.
- Encrypted at rest, with a key derived for your account.
- Never used to train models, and never sold or shared.
- Export everything any time, on every plan. Delete one entry, all of them, or your account, for real.
Questions about care or safety go straight to our care lead at care@daystrata.com.