An ancient Chinese proverb observes that "the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now". TiNMAN is a freely available people-first self-screening tool that prioritises online confidentiality through an exceptionally high level of anonymity that protects its users by requiring no personally-identifying information of any kind. To understand more of how it all came about tap here for a brief history of why.

Securely hosted and managed in the United Kingdom, TiNMAN's core purpose is to take self-assessments of complex conditions, deconstruct them, then present their many component parts as easy-to-use visual guides that build over time and create a unique fully interactive personal timeline. With the added ability of your being able to add notes to each dated entry, you can create a narrative to serve as an accurate historical reference and memory-saver.

Creating your own profile is very simple and risk-free. There are no questions to answer about yourself. It is as easy as selecting a set of screening questions then following some simple instructions to create then save the private login link that you will automatically be issued with.

Adenomyosis and endometriosis

These distinct and painful gynecological conditions can have a profoundly debilitating impact on any woman with a womb who is of reproductive-age. It is possible to suffer singly from adenomyosis or endometriosis or have them both at the same time. You can tap this link to study the question set, which will open in a new browser window. If you are affected by either adenomyosis or endometriosis then TiNMAN's exploration, focusing on core and overlapping symptoms, overlapping conditions, and personal wellbeing, could help bring you new-found clarity and legitimacy.

TAP HERE TO CREATE YOUR OWN ENDOMETRIOSIS & ADENOMYOSIS SYMPTOMS & IMPACT TRACKER

Autism in children and young people

TiNMAN's deep-exploration of this lifelong neurodevelopmental condition helps bring clarity to the existance and severity of autistic traits and tendencies within a child from the early primary school to young adulthood age range. You can tap this link to study the question set, which will open in a new browser window, and which includes dedicated sections for both ADHD and frequently co-occuring conditions.

TAP HERE TO CREATE A YOUNG PERSON'S AUTISM PROFILE

Post-traumatic stress disorder

There is no specific interpretation of what consistute traumatic events or experiences other than how badly you as an individual are affected by them and you can tap this link to study the question set, which will open in a new browser window. TiNMAN's deep-exploration of this often misunderstood and potentially very damaging condition investigates the extent to which harrowing events from the past may influence how you find yourself living now.

TAP HERE TO CREATE YOUR POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS PROFILE

Why build TiNMAN? It's a long story that starts a long time ago in a land far away, that being 2nd September 1965 at King Street Maternity Hospital in Watford, Hertfordshire when, three weeks overdue, I eventually made my grand entrance. Apparently one of my grandmothers was quoted as saying, "It must be a boy because he's too lazy to come out!" I grew up in and around south-west Hertfordshire and, unlike most of the people I knew who sided with bigger clubs elsewhere - we call them gloryhunters - I still support Watford Football Club, and I could not care less that they've never won a major trophy.

I was a disruptive schoolboy and often in trouble. At a point approaching my teens I was sent to a boarding school. In those days caning naughty boys was actively encouraged. I was a pretty little boy and the word "paedophile" was not in the common vernacular. By the time I left there I hated school with a vengeance. Next stop was a good school but I was not a good pupil and I left by personal choice at sixteen, being officially kicked out a little while later after playing constant truant. Nobody had doubted my intellectual ability to go far but I was glad to be out of it and away from being surrounded by people.

Over the next few years I worked at a number of jobs ranging from for a traditional fruit and vegetable market trader to driving off-road mining and quarry dump trucks. Along the way I drifted into transport management but found that I couldn't cope with the constancy of having people around me. Two good things came out if it though, I discovered computers and turned out to have a capacity to work very quickly with numbers in a creative way. I spent some years as an oil tanker driver and in the late nineties, catching a glimpse of the future, I took the plunge and bought a computer.

I moved to Northumberland at the turn of the century. A beautiful place but, despite enjoying working in digital design and programming, for a number of reasons I increasingly struggled with my "mental health" and it started to feel like a very slow dive into a bottomless abyss. I started to unravel and in early 2017 had a full emotional breakdown followed by a suicide attempt courtesy of the North Sea. A bleak experience and I've never been sure if I failed or succeeded by surviving it. Either way, it took months to get back into the world. From then to now various experiences of the healthcare system have cemented my opinion of a tragically dysfunctional health service that seems to have largely forgotten why it exists and who it is supposed to be for.

I'd been working quietly on an idea but wasn't really sure who it was for. My breakdown turned out to be my blinding light moment. I realised that, however clichéd it sounds, sometimes you really do have to be the change you want to see in the world. Since then the years have rolled by and not always been kind and I have no idea how many thousands of hours have been spent building every idea and testing it all to get to the essence of what's needed. Far more has been cast aside than kept. Nelson Mandela has been quoted as saying that "it always seems impossible until it's done". Well, finally, it's done and what remains is right and good and available for everyone to use and feel safe when doing so.

Throughout my life I have met so many good people who were deserving of help but instead subjected to stale practices and dismissive attitudes. Those people have been a source of great inspiration, kindness and encouragement to me and they are why I built TiNMAN. To those people and every one of you who is like them, you are not always alone and I am proud of you all.

I cannot thank enough the many people who have tolerated my pestering and freely given their time and professional expertise, or shared their lived-experiences, no matter how uncomfortable, to help make the screening questions so complete. I've always tried to be open and truthful, probably too much so at times, but of course you don't know me and I have to earn your trust. TiNMAN is offered as an honest piece of risk-free people-first work with no money required to use it, no personal information required to access it, and no fear of being judged or persecuted ... and I still have no idea why I called it TiNMAN.

I wish you well

Howard Wiedman

TiNMAN is a standalone digital mapping tool for demystifying complex disorders.

• It can target any condition with deep-exploration investigative question sets.
• It has the potential to improve communication, engagement, and autonomy for service users.
• It helps advance education and understanding through the growth of personal knowledge.
• It offers unrivalled insight with practical and time-saving tools.
• It is free-to-use, with no commercial model or data monetisation.

TiNMAN's service user benefits include

• user-managed account control
• immediate on-screen results post-assessment
• clear and useful data interpretation
• being quick and easy to grow, taking no more than a few minutes every few days.

TiNMAN has been developed along the principles of data minimisation and privacy by design

• built-in digital safety with browser-based operation and no downloads
• built-in anonymity with one-click registration and no need of personal details
• built-in data protection with no collection, storing, or sharing of personal or sensitive user data
• built-in privacy with no user tracking and no advertising
• built-in compliance with GDPR.

TiNMAN has been developed to be secure

• backwards-compatible with a wide range of legacy computer systems
• accessed through a web-browser link with end-to-end encryption
• hosted on state-of-the-art UK-based servers
• no use of external plugins or frameworks
• no use of Artificial Intelligence.

The form below respects anonymity so, if you wish to receive a reply you will need to include your email address. All contact needs to be in English and please avoid the use of HTML.

The following simple puzzle is designed to deter timewasters, scammers and spammers. To send your message please tap on then match the colour of each of the grey squares in the grid on the right to its associated coloured square in the grid on the left to complete your TiNMAN registration.