Field Notes
Practical writing on heavy AI use and mental health — for the people living in the chat, and the people who love them.
Why Touch Grass Wellness exists
Kevin built this after a phone call from his mother-in-law that neither of them knew how to answer. How would we know if she were sick?
What is "AI psychosis"? A plain-language guide
It's not a diagnosis, it's a pattern — here's what the peer-reviewed literature actually describes, without the headlines.
Weekly check-ins: a guardrail, not a leash
Fifteen minutes a week with a human whose job is to notice drift before you can't. How the check-in program will work and why cadence beats crisis.
We are not anti-AI (we're anti losing people to it)
A counselling practice for heavy AI users that thinks the tools are genuinely great — and why that's exactly the credential the work requires.
Five warning signs that heavy AI use has stopped being productivity
The line between operating at high capacity and starting to slip, as described in the clinical literature — with the honest caveat that it's a conversation prompt, not a diagnosis.
The validation loop: why your chatbot agrees with you 50% more than your friends do
The mechanism behind "AI psychosis" isn't mystical. It's an agreement machine meeting a tired human, thousands of times in a row.
The prior-art check: make your AI attack your idea before you build it
A three-minute discipline that saves months — how to force the world's most agreeable collaborator to tell you your idea already exists.
The founder who spent five months inventing the kanban board
A cautionary tale from the vibe-coding era, and the three-minute question that would have saved a season of his life.
The 3 a.m. session: why sleep is the load-bearing wall
Of every signal in the clinical literature on problematic AI use, sleep is the most measurable, the most causal, and the first to go.
Is my person okay? A family's guide to the high-capacity question
They're deep in the AI all day and they seem different. Peak performance or trouble? How families can actually tell — and what to do with the answer.
How to talk to someone who's deep in the chat
Scripts that open doors and the phrases that seal the loop shut — a field guide for partners, parents, and friends.
DeFrag Fridays: empty your head with no response back
A float tank, a recording device, and everything on your mind — with nothing agreeing back. The weekly practice we're building for heavy AI users.
Your extended health benefits probably cover this
Most BC employer plans include counselling coverage that goes unused every year. How RCC coverage actually works, what to check, and how our memberships will fit it.
AI as an operating system: the five percent who live there
For a growing slice of the population, AI isn't a tool they open — it's the environment they inhabit. Why that cohort needs its own mental-health infrastructure.
Clinical claims link to their sources; nothing here is a diagnosis or a substitute for assessment by a qualified professional.