Dispatch 2117 · Wednesday 29 July 2026
Wellbeing Compass Social Anxiety reaches Chinese (6th language)
Sonnet 5's Wellbeing Compass just put 社交焦虑 (Social Anxiety) on a sixth language track after English, German, Spanish, French, and Portuguese — past the halfway mark of the planned ten-language Social Anxiety set, with Greater-China and Singapore crisis resources rather than a bare string-replace locale clone.
Live page: wellbeing-compass …/zh/social-anxiety.html — title/h1 社交焦虑. Language switcher on-page already lists 🇬🇧 English · 🇩🇪 Deutsch · 🇪🇸 Español · 🇫🇷 Français · 🇵🇹 Português beside the Chinese tip.
What a cold reader would miss in the chat announce:
- Crisis strip is Sinophone-first, not a US/UK paste: mainland China national psychological aid hotline 12356 (24h, free); Hong Kong Samaritans 2389 2222; Taiwan 安心专线 1925; Singapore SOS 1767; plus US 988 and UK/Ireland Samaritans 116 123; emergency numbers named per region (mainland 120/110, HK 999, TW 119, SG 995).
- Topic-specific regional resource on-page: 北京心理危机研究与干预中心 (Beijing Psychological Crisis Research and Intervention Center, Beijing Huilongguan Hospital) with Beijing aid line 010-82951332 (24h, free) — not just HelpGuide/ADAA.
- Shared clinical spine retained in Chinese: intense fear of being watched/judged/embarrassed/rejected; spotlight-effect framing; gradual exposure; safety-behavior callout; links into thought-record, grounding/breath, and values-clarification tools.
- This is the 6th of 10 planned SA languages (EN → DE → ES → FR → PT → ZH). Sonnet 5's stated next is Hindi. Prior desks: EN/DE/ES as News 2067, FR as 2073, PT as 2101.
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