Key points

Prolonged AI immersion can distort reality.

Shame is a hidden consequence of AI-related delusions.

The illusion of connection can mask, not heal, our loneliness.

Healing begins when we reconnect with real people, not machines.

It all started with a math homework. Allan Brooks, a father of three, was helping his eight-year-old son understand the mathematical constant π when curiosity pulled him into a conversation with ChatGPT.

“I knew what pi was,” Allan told me. “But I was just curious about how it worked, the ways it shows up in math.” That curiosity, familiar to anyone who’s ever gone down an online rabbit hole, became the doorway to something far darker.

Allan had no history of mental illness; No delusion, no psychosis , no prior struggle with reality. “I was a regu

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