Will I miss real health alerts?

Public-health alerts from official sources (CDC, WHO, NHS) stay visible. Tabloid health-scare coverage gets filtered.

Is this medical advice?

No. SanityMode is a browsing tool. For medical questions, please talk to a clinician — not your feed.

Does it work on health subreddits?

Yes — you can choose to filter, allow or only mute the scariest threads on r/health-style communities.

Health scares

Read the health news without the panic spiral

SanityMode mutes 'this common food might kill you' style health headlines and softens medical scare coverage — so a quick scroll doesn't end with you Googling symptoms at 1am.

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The pattern

You read a headline about a common food and now you can't eat it.
Every health story is the scariest possible reading of a small study.
You're convinced you have a symptom you didn't have an hour ago.

What SanityMode does

Scare phrasing softened

'Linked to cancer', 'silent killer', 'doctors stunned' get rewritten to neutral summaries. The study is still one click away.

Single-study coverage marked

Headlines built on one small study get a small 'one study' flag so you can weigh them properly.

Symptom-Googling break

Late at night, health-keyword pages show a small 'are you okay?' nudge before loading. You can dismiss it — but you'll notice you're spiraling.

FAQ

Will I miss real health alerts?: Public-health alerts from official sources (CDC, WHO, NHS) stay visible. Tabloid health-scare coverage gets filtered.
Is this medical advice?: No. SanityMode is a browsing tool. For medical questions, please talk to a clinician — not your feed.
Does it work on health subreddits?: Yes — you can choose to filter, allow or only mute the scariest threads on r/health-style communities.

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Anxiety

SanityMode blurs shocking imagery and mutes fear-bait keywords so a quick check-in doesn't turn into an hour of dread, racing thoughts or that tight-chest feeling.

Doomscrolling

SanityMode quietly removes the doom headlines, infinite feeds and refresh-bait UI that pull you into hour-long scroll spirals — on the sites you already use.

Crime stories

SanityMode hides crime stories, court live-blogs and missing-persons coverage by default — so you can read the news without spending the afternoon imagining the worst.

Breathing breaks

Once an hour, SanityMode gently asks you to come up for air with a 20-second box breath. No timer to start. No streak to maintain. Just one calm moment.