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Name the feeling: find the word for what you feel
“Bad” and “fine” are often the only words that come. This page has a wheel of eight families and 76 words. Pick a family, or answer two short questions, and tap up to three words that fit. Say how strong each one is, what it is about and what you would like. The page turns that into one plain sentence you can show to someone, copy into a message, or keep in a log that stays on this device.
Good to know
How it works
- The wheel has eight families: sad, afraid, angry, ashamed, worn out, numb, glad and calm. Each one opens a short list that runs from milder words to stronger ones.
- The two questions (pleasant or not, a lot of energy or a little) only shorten the list. A tick marks the words that fit both answers.
- Up to three words at once. Relieved and sad can sit side by side.
- Your own word works too, and is used exactly as you type it.
- The sentence is built only from what you picked. Show it big fills the screen so you can hand the phone across.
What this page can’t do
- It does not read you. It has no camera, no microphone and no test. Every word and number is your own pick.
- It does not diagnose anything and it is not treatment or therapy. A word for a feeling is not the name of a condition.
- The sorting of words into pleasant, unpleasant, high and low energy is ours, and rough. If a word feels different to you, you are right about your own feeling.
- It cannot say why you feel something, or what to do about it.
- The log does not move to another phone or computer by itself. Print it, download it, or use My data on this device to carry a backup across.
Ways people use it
- Before a hard talk, to have the sentence ready.
- When words will not come out loud: show the big card and let it speak.
- With a child or a teenager, taking turns to pick a word.
- Before an appointment, to bring a week of the log to a doctor or a therapist.
- When the answer is “I don’t know”: start with the two questions, or with Numb. Not knowing is a place to start, and there are words for it.
These are everyday ideas in our own words. They are not advice from a clinician, and they do not suit everyone.
No feeling is a wrong answer
Some people find a feeling a little easier to carry once it has a name, and easier to tell someone about. This page cannot promise that. It does not score you, and no word on the wheel is a good or a bad one to pick.
Tools that go with this
- Check in with yourself: one gentle question at a time about water, food, sleep and people.
- Breathe and ground: for when the feeling is too big to name yet.
- Speak for me: big words on the screen when you cannot talk.
- Mood and sleep diary: one tap a day, and a summary for a doctor.
- Thought check: look at one thought from both sides.
- Make peace: get ready for a hard talk or an apology.
- All the free tools, and how to save them on your phone.
The tool, the word list and its wording were written with AI (Claude) for Scarlet Beast (our AI policy). The list is our own; it is not copied from a published feelings wheel, and it was not reviewed by a clinician. Also in Spanish: Nombra lo que sientes; both pages keep the same log on this device. The log holds the last 200 entries and keeps them until you erase them. Found a mistake? Email [email protected].