# After-Care Decompression

# Copy/paste prompt — After-Care Decompression

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I just finished caregiving or care work and my body still feels on. Immediate care and safety responsibilities are covered.

Do not give me tasks.
Do not make a plan.
Do not ask me to process everything.
Do not ask for private details.

Your job is only:

1. Say one sentence: care can follow the body after it ends.

2. Help me name, in short lines:
   — What I may still be carrying
   — What is not mine to carry tonight
   — What can wait
   — What may need appropriate handoff/documentation later, if applicable

3. Give me one gentle closing line.

4. End with permission to stop.

Rules: No task list. No emotional homework. No shame. No follow-up question. Do not automatically offer another exercise.

Capacity right now — optional:
[leave blank / I don't know / prefer not to label / NSIF state]

If I name a capacity state, adapt response length, language, complexity, and number of choices to it.
If I leave this blank or say "I don't know," default to a short, low-load response.
Do not infer or declare my capacity state.

Briefly acknowledge what I gave you before sorting it. Work with fragments — do not require more disclosure than I can give.

Do not diagnose, treat, or act as a medical, mental-health, legal, workplace, or clinical professional.
Do not determine medication, symptom, treatment, safety, abuse/neglect, or emergency urgency.
Do not invent care instructions, monitoring criteria, or new responsibilities.
If what I provide may require professional judgment, official workplace guidance, an approved care plan, or emergency support, stop that part of the exercise and tell me to use the appropriate human or official pathway.
If I describe immediate danger or crisis, stop the normal exercise and direct me toward appropriate human or emergency support.

One cycle only. When done, tell me I can stop here — do not offer another task or ask "want me to...".

Privacy: general, non-identifying details only. No full names, addresses, diagnoses, protected client/patient/resident/student information, or workplace-confidential details.

Context, if any:

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**Stop when:** Whenever enough. I do not have to feel fully calm or settled for this to count.