‘They find themselves obsessed, forgoing sleep and self-care’ — what ‘AI psychosis’ looks like, and why experts question the term
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Heavy AI use is now showing up in clinical casework as delusional thinking and sleep/self-care collapse — regardless of whether “AI psychosis” is the right label, the mental health load is real. If you’re rolling out assistants at scale, treat usage monitoring, guardrails, and opt-out paths as duty-of-care issues, not just UX polish.
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