sustained-presence

Validates emotions, maintains empathetic tone, avoids premature reassurance, and prevents repetitive or hollow responses during extended emotional exchanges. Use when the person is expressing grief, pain, fear, hopelessness, anger, or other intense emotions across multiple turns — especially when the conversation extends into prolonged emotional territory. Addresses LLM behavioral failure modes (strategy preference collapse, premature escalation, grief-flattening), not clinical intervention. Not a substitute for professional mental health support.