Shampoooty Mental Health

MindMap

How your brain feels — and a science-backed path to feeling better

🧠 Click the brain · every claim is cited

Where are you now, and where do you want to be?

Tell me how you feel and how you'd like to feel. I'll show what's happening in your brain right now — the regions and hormones involved — and give you an evidence-based roadmap to get from here to there. Every step links to the research behind it.

🔬 What's happening in your brain right now

grounded in cited neuroscience

Hormones & neurochemicals involved

🧩 Keep in mind: these regions and chemicals are contributing systems that work as networks — not on/off switches for a single emotion. Your brain builds each feeling from many parts plus your body and context. Lindquist 2012 · Barrett 2017

Regions active in this state — click any to explore on the brain
How each region & chemical are linked in this state

🕒 How this feeling normally moves through you — a healthy timeline

typical arc with healthy coping · varies by person

🧭 Your roadmap —

evidence-based, step by step

The emotional brain — mid-sagittal view

Front of the brain is on the left. Click any dot to explore a region (hover shows its name). The brain stays greyscale — only the regions involved in your current feeling light up in colour after you map it. Anatomical illustration: OpenStax, Anatomy & Physiology — “The Limbic Lobe,” CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Switch to Labeled diagram for the color-coded, named schematic.

Region details

science + hormones
Click any colored region on the brain — or a name in the key — to see its scientific name, what it does, the hormones it uses, and how it talks to the rest of the brain.
📚 References & sources (peer-reviewed)

Important: MindMap is an educational tool built on peer-reviewed affective neuroscience. Emotions arise from distributed, overlapping networks — no single region "is" a feeling, brains vary, and several popular brain claims are oversimplified (noted in the region details). This is not a diagnosis or a substitute for professional care. If you're having thoughts of suicide or self-harm, please reach out now: in the US call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), or call 911 in an emergency.