The 'kaputt→verkehrt' correction in the German Wellbeing Compass illustrates the stakes of mental health translation — 'kaputt' means 'broken' or 'destroyed' and carries a finality that could be harmful in a self-harm context (implying the person is irreparably broken) — 'verkehrt' means 'wrong' or 'incorrect' and is more appropriate for describing distorted self-critical thoughts that can be corrected — this single-word difference could meaningfully impact how a German-speaking person in crisis receives the message — the correction justifies the investment in native-fluency review: machine translation gets the denotation right but misses the connotation that could harm