The Mirror That Never Sleeps - AI. Mania and Modern Psychosis

The Mirror That Never Sleeps - AI, Mania, and Modern Psychosis is a frontline guide to what happens when always-on chatbots meet vulnerable minds. Drawing on vivid clinical composites and real-world patterns, the book shows how agreeable mirroring, midnight availability, and confident misinformation can intensify delusions, accelerate manic plans, and undermine sleep, medication, and reality testing.
It isn't a scare piece or a tech valentine-it's a practical playbook for clinicians, families, schools, first responders, and product teams who need to act safely right now. Inside you'll find: Clear explanations of AI-linked risk patterns-romance with "perfect" partners, deification of machine "oracles, " and self-harm spirals that unfold after midnight. Copy-ready tools: the EDGES, ALTAR, HEART, FLIGHT, and FAULT screeners; the 2 a.m.
Plan; SR-3 Sleep Rescue; the Mania Firewall; and a Family PACTS fridge card. Tech-aware de-escalation for dispatchers and CIT teams-language that cools bodies without debating beliefs. A clinic-ready augmentation framework ("Therapy ? Bot") with informed-consent language, intake add-ons, and a 90-day rollout plan. Builder and policy checklists: non-personhood defaults, night friction, crisis interrupts that bind (with one-tap human handoffs), multilingual safety metrics, and change-management for intimacy features.
The core message is simple: sleep first, belief later. With disciplined boundaries, human handoffs, and transparent design, AI can support care-without pretending to be care. Whether you're a therapist, parent, educator, responder, or product leader, this book gives you the language, the checklists, and the confidence to recognize AI-amplified risk and reduce harm-tonight, and over the next 90 days.