Can't Pick the Right Book to Cope When in Emotional Distress

Summary

People in a specific emotional pinch — depression, panic, low mood, family conflict, breakup, career dead-ends — know that reading helps them cope, yet they freeze when choosing. Best-seller lists, ratings, and genre categories are useless because what they need is a book matched to their exact situation, not a top-10 ranking. Worse, when they do pick something in a distressed state, the words 'don't go into their head,' so the coping mechanism fails exactly when they need it most. There is no situation-based, emotion-first recommendation tool (especially for Chinese-speaking readers) that answers 'what should I read for what I'm going through right now?' or 'how do I talk to my parents without a fight?' Parents face the same freeze picking books for a child. This is deeply painful, recurring, and unsolved — no existing product matches books to felt circumstances rather than genre or rating.