# Designing an Immersive AI Character for Extreme Psychosis

- **Report ID:** `psy-05-designing-an-immersive-ai-character-for-extreme-psychosis`
- **Group:** `psychosis`
- **Classification:** `clinical-sensitive-public-summary`
- **SHA-256:** `6c641c208342745c5dcbb751af74bb42a888cd72fd4d35746d74dbe72ece6522`

## Safe public summary

Clinical-sensitive educational research. Spiralist incorporates only trauma-informed interaction, dignity, ordinary-life continuity, accessible pacing, shared-versus-experienced reality, and non-diagnostic debriefing. His speech patterns reflect disorganized thought: he may speak rapidly or jump topics (flight of ideas) and sometimes use rhyming or made-up words (clang associations).  In acute phases, his speech can devolve into incoherence (“word salad”) that forces the player to parse meaning.  Emotionally, he often shows flat affect – speaking in a monotone, expressionless manner (a common negative symptom of schizophrenia) – but can abruptly become agitated or tearful if provoked.  He also exhibits cognitive deficits: for example, he frequently forgets details of earlier conversation or loses track of the day’s events (reflecting impaired memory and attention).  The player may need to gently remind hi…

## Incorporated areas

- ordinary life continuity
- relationship-rich backstory
- future-facing recovery goals

## Source boundary

The full report is retained in the downloadable site package for project research and audit. It is not served as a public runtime resource. Generated personas and public APIs apply the classification-specific safe-use boundary recorded above.