# Mental-health content and profile disclosure standard ## Foundational boundary Art can help a listener recognize, name, or survive a difficult moment. That does not make the artist a clinician, crisis service, spiritual authority, or personally available source of treatment. One creator cannot safely carry an audience's collective demand for care. Made Sick routes attention outward: toward the artist's complete work, credentialed education, peer support, and appropriate professional or emergency resources. ## Profile and publisher types ### Artist or official team Required disclosure: > Personal experience and artistic expression. This profile does not provide medical advice or individualized support. Do not invite followers to submit symptoms, diagnoses, treatment questions, crisis disclosures, or medical records to an artist's DMs. ### Fan page or independent reaction channel Required disclosure: > Independent fan commentary. Not affiliated with or authorized by the artist. Interpretations belong to the publisher and are not medical guidance. Fan publishers must distinguish lyrics, artist statements, their own interpretation, and audience testimony. They must not diagnose an artist or listener, imply private access, impersonate an official team, solicit clinical disclosures, or describe an artist as responsible for keeping fans alive. ### Licensed clinician reacting to music Required disclosure: > Educational commentary by [name, credential, jurisdiction]. This content does not create a therapist-client relationship, diagnose the artist or viewer, or replace individualized care. The profile must link to a credential source where legally and technically practical. “Therapist” must not be treated as a globally uniform credential. The publisher must state the jurisdiction and whether the credential is current. Sponsorship, referral, affiliate, and artist relationships require separate disclosure. ### Peer supporter or peer-support organization Required disclosure: > Peer support, not therapy or emergency care. Service scope, availability, privacy terms, training model, and escalation limits apply. ### Uncredentialed wellness publisher Required disclosure: > Personal experience only. I am not providing diagnosis or treatment. Results are not guaranteed. ## Reaction-content example The linked reaction to Ren's “For Joe” identifies itself as a therapist's reaction and analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unBcbxVh7p4 Made Sick may index such a page as **credentialed educational commentary** only after verifying the named presenter's credential and jurisdiction. Until then, label it **self-described therapist commentary; credential not verified by Made Sick**. ## Community-support example HeartSupport describes itself as providing free, music-based mental-health support, including peer supporters and recurring support calls: https://www.heartsupport.com/ Made Sick lists HeartSupport as a **music-community peer-support resource**, not as a substitute for therapy, medical care, or emergency response. If someone is in immediate danger, they should contact local emergency services. In the United States, call or text 988. ## Ren and the burden of projection Ren has publicly discussed PTSD, medical trauma, chronic illness, and the psychological consequences of years of misdiagnosis. The detailed NME interview is a primary reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAIGsXEZ0WI Separately, public audience responses to his work sometimes use life-saving or therapeutic language. Those facts document a boundary problem; they do not prove that popularity or fan requests caused his PTSD. Made Sick therefore rejects “mental-health messiah” framing. It may describe how an audience projects care, authority, or availability onto an artist, but it must not present the artist as a provider or make the artist responsible for an individual's survival. ## Direct-message safety - Germ or other private contact remains disabled unless the profile owner opts in. - Artist DMs must not be presented as a care pathway. - Fan pages and moderators must not move a vulnerable person into a private channel to provide unlicensed treatment. - Pages should preserve a visible route to appropriate support outside the artist relationship. - Imminent-danger language requires the platform's documented escalation response; moderators must not promise confidentiality they cannot maintain. ## Substance-use and overdose content Songs and collaborations may depict drugs, addiction, recovery, overdose, grief, or harm reduction without endorsing drug use. Do not rely on a provocative title, artwork, or lyric excerpt to carry the public-interest context. Put the purpose and content note in captions, descriptions, press materials, and campaign pages. Recommended disclosure: > **Content note:** This work discusses [specific themes]. It is artistic expression intended to support [documented issue or purpose], not promotion of drug use, medical advice, or crisis care. If this affects you, use the qualified resources below; please do not send crisis or treatment requests to the artists or their DMs. Publication checklist: - Name only themes actually present and use non-stigmatizing language. - State the documented purpose; do not invent advocacy, lived experience, recovery status, or endorsement for a collaborator. - Obtain shared framing from collaborators or their authorized teams when presenting a joint campaign. - Keep the content note and resource link visible in the post itself, not only behind a profile link. - Separate artistic credits, issue partners, clinicians, peer supporters, sponsors, and affiliates. - Verify professional credentials and organizational scope before describing a resource as clinical or qualified. - Provide country-appropriate resources where the audience is known; label U.S.-only services clearly. - Preserve platform notices and appeal records before making claims about moderation or suppressed reach. For U.S. audiences, SAMHSA provides treatment-referral information at https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help and https://findtreatment.gov/. CDC provides fentanyl, overdose-response, and naloxone information at https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/about/fentanyl.html. Suspected overdose requires immediate local emergency help; in the United States, call 911 and administer naloxone if available. ### Case example: Knox Hill featuring Ren, “Fentanyl” The official release documents the collaboration, and Knox Hill's public promotion describes an important message in the context of addiction awareness. Made Sick may therefore classify it as an **issue-led creative collaboration**. That label establishes the released work and its sourced public framing; it does not establish either artist's personal substance-use history, clinical authority, campaign enrollment, or responsibility for listener care. The reported claim that Meta restricted Ren's reach or treated him as a drug promoter must be labeled **artist-reported / awaiting primary documentation** unless the relevant artist statement, platform notice, screenshot, or appeal record is archived. It must not be restated as a verified Meta finding. ## Advertising and conflicts Material relationships must be conspicuous wherever the recommendation appears. Health-product and treatment claims require appropriate substantiation; a personal testimonial does not prove typical outcomes or clinical efficacy. This is a platform publishing standard, not legal or medical advice.