A structural lens on disorder and recovery, and a self-survey that tracks the shape over time. A reflection and research aid, not a diagnostic instrument.
Read through this lens, several conditions are changes in the same structure. Depression flattens depth everywhere at once, so nothing lands with normal force. Anxiety narrows the field to the threat. Trauma freezes responsiveness, locking certain regions out of reach. Addiction lets one stake colonize the others. Each is a different signature of collapse, a durable loss of the geometry's capacity to matter.
Recovery, in the same terms, is the geometry being restored: depth returning, the field widening, frozen regions thawing, a captured life rebalancing. The point is a vocabulary that holds these together without flattening them into one scale.
A person who lets the noise fall away and keeps the few things that matter most is not necessarily unwell. That is consolidation, and it carries three marks: an endorsement that would survive the person being fully restored, preserved capacity to re-expand, and conserved depth in what remains. Where those hold, the narrowing is chosen and intact, and pressing the person back toward their former breadth is itself a harm, not a rescue.
The clinical use is the contrast. Depression endorsing its own flatness fails the first mark; the settled elder who would decline the old calendar with reasons passes it.
The self-survey maps a person's stakes across the five dimensions and draws them as one shape. A short mood check at the start labels each sitting, and a mood overlay shows how a current state colors the experienced shape. That separation, a rough week against a lasting change, is the part most self-report misses, and it is built in.
It runs in the browser and saves to the person's own account, so the picture follows them across sittings and devices, and they can export a snapshot at any time. It is a starting point for reflection and a candidate research tool, not a diagnostic test.
The lens is being worked through depression, anxiety, trauma, and addiction in turn, and through what restoring a shape looks like in practice. The technical library carries the current state of that work as it develops.