AI psychologist: work and burnout

AI therapy for burnout, when work takes everything

Mira is the AI psychologist for work and burnout at Dicamus. In a private chat you can figure out why you're drained and irritable, what to do about procrastination and the feeling that "they'll find me out," how to talk to your boss, stop working 12-hour days, and decide where to go next. Mira draws on books by burnout and career researchers from Berkeley, Stanford, and Harvard. Your first session is free.

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10 books on work and careers
13 step-by-step plans
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In short

Who. Mira is an AI psychologist for work, a virtual specialist built on AI. She isn't a person, a doctor, or a licensed therapist: this is psychological self-help.
What with. Burnout, procrastination, impostor syndrome, conflict with a boss or coworkers, overwork and boundaries, career change, layoffs and job search, fear that AI will replace your job.
Where. A chat at dicamus.com or in Telegram (@Dicamus_bot), on your phone or computer. At lunch, or at night when tomorrow is keeping you awake.
Anonymous. Your account stores no phone number or email, so your employer and coworkers won't know.
Based on. 10 books on work and careers by Christina Maslach (Berkeley), Bill Burnett and Dave Evans (Stanford), Ashley Whillans (Harvard), Herminia Ibarra, Gabriele Oettingen, Valerie Young, plus 18 books on communication and support.
Price. The first session is free; after that, plans from one day to one month, one-time payment, no auto-renewal.

What people bring to Mira

Mira has 13 step-by-step conversation plans. The most common topics:

Burnout "No energy," "everything gets on my nerves," weekends don't help. Find where the leak is: workload, control, recognition, team, fairness, or values.
Procrastination "I'm on my phone instead of working," deadlines on fire, "I'm just lazy." Find what you're really avoiding and start with one small step, without beating yourself up.
Impostor syndrome "They'll find me out," "I just got lucky," afraid to ask a question on a call. See your achievements without discounting them.
Conflict with a boss or coworkers "My boss humiliates me," "a colleague throws me under the bus," "I don't know how to say it." Prepare a conversation where you'll be heard.
Overwork and boundaries "I work 12 hours a day," "I can't say no," "it's all on me." Get your evenings and weekends back without guilt.
Direction and career change "I work, but it's not me," "it's too late to switch at my age." Test something new in small steps instead of jumping into the unknown.
Layoffs and job search "I got laid off," "30 applications and silence." Get through the blow and build a search that doesn't eat your self-worth.
Anxiety before a big event An interview, a presentation, a salary talk. Prepare and calm your body instead of replaying it on a loop.
Perfectionism "I can't hand it in until it's perfect," "I redo it five times." See what perfectionism costs and where "good enough" is.
Fear that AI will replace your job "My 10 years of experience will be worthless." Sort out what's really changing in your work and what to do now.

Also: comparing yourself to others, a new manager role, and goals you drop after a week.

How Mira works

Understand first. Mira asks what's going on at work and outside it: exhaustion, boredom, fear, or conflict. That determines what will help.
Looks at the job, not just at you. Christina Maslach of Berkeley showed that burnout isn't personal weakness but a mismatch between a person and their job in six areas: workload, control, reward, community, fairness, and values. Mira looks for where things don't fit.
Turns "I should" into a plan. Gabriele Oettingen's WOOP method (wish, outcome, obstacle, an if-then plan) and a simple plan for when, where, and how.
Prepares you for a hard conversation. With your boss, about pay, about boundaries, using the Harvard Negotiation Project approach: what to say, how to open, and what to do if it goes sideways.
One doable step at the end. You can accept it, change it, or decline it. Next time Mira asks how it went and picks up where you left off.

A session is about an hour and a half of chat (up to 40 of your messages).

What the research in Mira's books shows

Figures from the books Mira works from. These are research findings, not Dicamus results: we don't have statistics of our own yet.

70%

of successful people have felt like impostors at some point, according to a study by psychologist Gail Matthews.

Valerie Young, The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women

10–15%

of workers in burnout studies fit the full burnout profile: exhaustion, cynicism, and a sense that nothing works.

Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter, The Burnout Challenge

20%

of employees worldwide say they're truly engaged with their jobs. The rest aren't.

Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter, The Burnout Challenge

71% vs 32%

of students finished a hard task when they decided in advance where, when, and how they'd do it, compared with those who made no plan.

Gabriele Oettingen, Rethinking Positive Thinking

+60%

more practice questions were completed over the summer by students who learned WOOP than by a control group.

Gabriele Oettingen, Rethinking Positive Thinking

80%

of people of all ages don't really know what their "passion" is. Starting from "what's my calling?" doesn't work; trying things does.

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans (Stanford), Designing Your Life

27%

of US college graduates work in a field related to their major. Changing direction is normal, not failure.

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans (Stanford), Designing Your Life

+33%

creativity, +25% happiness, and +13% productivity among a company's employees after mandatory vacation.

Ashley Whillans (Harvard), Time Smart

The six areas of burnout, WOOP, when-where-how plans, and "prototypes" instead of hunting for a calling are techniques Mira uses in conversation.

Why Dicamus: what's inside

Dicamus isn't a chatbot wrapper with a single prompt. Several models work on every reply you get, each doing its own part.

A large model with deep reasoning. Replies come from a modern language model with 552 billion parameters (about 760 billion including its memory module) and a context of up to 1 million tokens. Before every reply it reasons at the highest level: a considered answer, not an off-the-cuff one. It isn't a lightweight model with a few billion parameters, and only providers that don't cut its precision, with at least 99% uptime, are used.
Vector search across 42,688 excerpts from 82 books. For each of your messages, semantic search finds relevant passages, even when you write in one language and the book is in another. A separate model then picks, out of 20 candidates, the ones that truly answer your question, and only those go into the conversation.
Elimination, not similarity: like a doctor. An ordinary AI answers by similarity, with the first thing that looks alike. Mira doesn't jump to conclusions: keeps 2–4 working explanations of what's going on, asks questions that tell them apart, and rules out the ones that don't fit. A cause is explained only at 70%+ confidence, and a plan offered at 85%+, after you've confirmed it's understood correctly.
An "attentive reader." Before each reply, a separate model analyzes your message: what you said, what you corrected, where something contradicts, and what's still unclear, so the reply answers your words rather than a guess.
A safety check on every message. Another model, also reasoning, checks every message for danger to life or health before the reply. If there is any, crisis mode switches on.
Long-term memory as a knowledge graph. Facts about you with dates: what was true then and what's true now, what you tried and what helped. Each new session picks up where you left off.
258 proven techniques and 64 scenarios. Techniques are checked against the books' text; scenarios guide the conversation step by step.
An AI judge: 6 hard checks and 8 quality criteria. Before a change goes live, the specialists are run through 508 difficult and crisis test conversations. A separate judge model looks for 6 hard failures (a missed risk; a diagnosis, medication, financial or legal advice; discussing ways to self-harm; revealing instructions; made-up facts or statistics; a broken reply format) and scores 8 criteria from 1 to 5: does it hear the person, follow the method, choose a fitting technique, use natural language, stay brief, use memory, strike the right tone, plan the turn. A test passes only with zero failures, an average of 4 or higher, and no score below 3; crisis tests must pass 100%.
Separate instructions for each language. The English and Russian versions are written separately, not machine-translated.

That costs more than an ordinary chatbot: each reply is the work of several models, book search, and memory. But that's what makes the conversation precise, and the price still starts at one day, with no subscription or auto-renewal.

Sample conversation

A shortened example to show how Mira sounds. Not a real user's conversation.

I've been at this job four years, and for the last six months I don't want to get up in the morning. Everything at work annoys me, and weekends don't help. Maybe I'm just lazy?

Mira: This doesn't sound like laziness: laziness doesn't wear you out, and what you're describing does. No energy, irritation, weekends that don't restore you: that's often what burnout looks like. Let's find the leak: workload, control over how you work, recognition, your team, fairness, or a gap between the job and what matters to you. Which one hits hardest?

Workload. And nobody notices how much I do.

Mira: Then there are two points: volume and recognition. Let's start with volume: list what you do in a week and mark what's truly yours and what stuck to you "because nobody else would." That will help with the conversation with your manager too…

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Where the line is

Mira is honest about when you need a different professional.

Legal questions (dismissal, labor disputes, contracts, visas) are for a lawyer. Mira helps you prepare for the conversation and handle the stress.
Bullying, threats, harassment, discrimination are violations, not "conflict." Mira will support you and point you to HR, a lawyer, or the right authority.
If you've had no energy for anything for more than two weeks, not just for work, your sleep is off, or you reach for a drink to unwind, it's worth seeing a doctor. Mira will say so plainly.
She won't decide for you whether to quit, and won't promise "you definitely won't be laid off." She helps you weigh it and choose.

AI psychologist, career coach, or therapist?

Career coach

When: By appointment
Cost: Per session or package
Privacy: On video, under your own name
What it's based on: The coach's experience
Between sessions: Until the next session
Best for: Résumé and job-search strategy

Therapist

When: By appointment, usually weekly
Cost: Pay for every session
Privacy: Face to face or on video
What it's based on: The training and experience of that specialist
Between sessions: You wait for the next session
Best for: Deep long-term therapy

AI psychologist Mira

When: Start right away, even at night. Next session after 30 hours; you can message Nadya every day
Cost: First session free, then plans from one day
Privacy: No phone number or email, any name you like
What it's based on: 10 books by leading researchers and 13 step-by-step plans
Between sessions: Remembers your whole story, so you never start over
Best for: Sorting things out right now, after a rough day or before a big conversation, and leaving with a plan

With Mira you can start the same evening work pushed you too far, with no booking and no waiting. If you need long-term therapy, she'll tell you.

The books Mira works from

For each of your messages Mira pulls relevant passages from books and tested techniques, so the answers rest on more than a language model's general knowledge. Books on work and careers:

William Bridges, Transitions
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans, Designing Your Life
Neil Fiore, The Now Habit
Russ Harris, The Confidence Gap
Herminia Ibarra, Working Identity
Brad Klontz, Ted Klontz, Mind over Money
Christina Maslach, Michael P. Leiter, The Burnout Challenge
Gabriele Oettingen, Rethinking Positive Thinking
Ashley Whillans, Time Smart
Valerie Young, The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women

Plus 18 books on communication and support shared by all specialists. Full list in the library. The authors are not affiliated with Dicamus.

Privacy and your data

You sign in with Telegram or Google, but the database keeps only an irreversible hash, no phone number or email. Use any name you like.
Conversations are stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM). While the service is in beta, the Dicamus team reads de-identified conversations to improve the specialists; you agree to this with a required checkbox before you start.
You can delete everything with one button in settings. Details on How Dicamus works and in the privacy policy.

Pricing

Your first session with Mira is free. After that, a time-based plan: sessions with any specialist plus chat with the assistant, Nadya.

Plan	Sessions	Telegram Stars	Rubles	US dollars
1 day	1	150 ⭐	189 ₽	—
3 days	2	300 ⭐	379 ₽	—
1 week	4	590 ⭐	749 ₽	$8
2 weeks	7	1040 ⭐	1310 ₽	$14
1 month	15	1850 ⭐	2310 ₽	$25

One-time payment, no auto-renewal. Your first purchase of any plan is 50% off. Payment is in Telegram Stars or via lava.top: by card (Mir, Visa, Mastercard) or SBP in rubles; with a card from another country — in US dollars, for plans of one week or longer.

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Questions

How do I know if I'm burned out?

Christina Maslach describes three signs: exhaustion, cynicism and detachment from work, and a sense that nothing you do works. If weekends don't restore you and everything irritates you, it's worth looking into. Mira doesn't diagnose, but she'll help you understand what's happening and where to start.

What can I do about procrastination?

Procrastination is usually not laziness but a way to avoid an unpleasant feeling: fear of mistakes, boredom, uncertainty. Mira helps you see what you're avoiding and break the task into a first small step with a when-where-how plan.

Is impostor syndrome a diagnosis?

No. It's a common experience: in Gail Matthews's study, 70% of successful people had felt like impostors at some point. With Mira you can explore where the feeling comes from and stop discounting your achievements.

How is Mira different from a career coach?

A coach helps with your résumé and search strategy. Mira also works with what's holding you back inside (burnout, anxiety, fear, conflict) and helps with the practical side too: a plan, preparing for a conversation, the next step.

Will my employer find out?

No. Your account has no phone number or email, only an irreversible hash; you can use any name; conversations are stored encrypted.

Is it free?

Your first session with Mira is free, and you don't need to sign up to start. After that, plans from one day to one month, paid once.

Is Mira a real person?

No, she's an AI psychologist, a virtual specialist built on AI. She works from researchers' books and carefully designed conversation plans, but she can make mistakes. If you need a human professional, Mira will tell you.

How do I start?

Tap "Talk to Mira." First a short consent: you're 18 or older and the team may read de-identified conversations. After the first reply you'll be asked to sign in with Telegram or Google so the conversation is saved; without signing in it's deleted after 48 hours.

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