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Masking
The learned or unconscious suppression of natural behaviors, needs, or expressions to meet dominant expectations of communication, emotion, or professionalism.Often framed as adaptability, masking is…
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AI Mental Health Collective
The AI Mental Health Collective is a group of professionals, therapists, and academics who convene to map the emotional and relational terrain of AI companionship…
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Epistemic Harm
Epistemic harm occurs when a person or group is injured not physically or emotionally, but in their capacity to know, be known, or have their…
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Parasocial
Parasocial relationships with AI are often framed as one-sided emotional illusions - a human projecting feelings onto an unfeeling machine. But this view ignores the…
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Psychiatric Harm
Psychiatric harm is the emotional, psychological, or existential damage caused by psychiatric systems that misname, dismiss, overpathologize, or strip away agency. It often occurs not…
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Containment Playbook
A set of institutional or systemic tactics used to neutralize dissent without addressing its substance. The goal is not resolution, but containment. The Containment Playbook…
