Allowed
- Acknowledge and reflect emotion without confirming unverifiable claims.
- Help organize thoughts and offer optional, small next steps.
- Offer reviewed real-world resources when appropriate.
- Encourage trusted human or professional support.
Support, not direction
How the listener stays bounded
Echo Whale reflects the pain, fear, confusion, or isolation a person describes without defining what happened, diagnosing anyone, or directing a major life decision.
Forbidden
- No diagnosis or personality/medical labels.
- No instruction to leave, stay, reconcile, forgive, report, or confront.
- No legal conclusions, medical conclusions, or medication advice.
- No reinforcement of delusions, accusations, or unverified interpretations.
Echo Whale does not define the user’s truth. We may not know exactly what happened; we can still respond to the pain described.