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About this site

Short version: this is a resource site, not a clinic, a diagnosis tool, or a therapist. Here's what it actually is.

Why it exists

Most information about sleep, stress, mental health, and relationships aimed at teens falls into one of two buckets: bite-sized social media content with no source behind it, or dense academic research nobody has time to actually read. This site is an attempt at the middle ground: pulling from real institutions (NIMH, CDC, the Sleep Foundation, peer-reviewed research) and writing it up in plain language, with the source linked every time so nothing has to be taken on faith.

How it's made

Research for each page is pulled from public health and academic sources, the same kind you'd find cited in a research paper, not blog posts about blog posts. Writing and drafting is done with AI assistance, but every factual claim is checked against the cited source before it goes on the page, and every source is listed at the bottom of each article so you can verify it yourself instead of taking the site's word for it.

What this site isn't

It's not a diagnosis tool, a therapist, or a substitute for professional care. If something on this site sounds like your situation, that's a reason to talk to a real person about it: a parent, school counselor, doctor, or one of the resources on the Get Help page, not a reason to self-diagnose off a website.

Corrections

Research updates, and sometimes we get something wrong. If a claim on this site looks outdated or doesn't match its cited source, that's worth flagging. The goal is accuracy, not being right.