# AI Psychosis’ Is HERE: How Chatbots Are Quietly Breaking People’s Minds

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Podcast: [Funny Medicine Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/funny-medicine-podcast-6411675)
Published: 2025-12-16T12:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

What happens when your favorite mental health podcast collides with Black Mirror and real-world psychiatry? This episode of Funny Medicine Podcast dives into the emerging phenomenon of “AI psychosis”; how chatting with AI tools for hours can blur reality, amplify delusions, and even replace real human connection and therapy. Episode overview: In this episode, we break down what clinicians are starting to call AI psychosis, chatGPT psychosis, or chatbot-induced delusions, and why mental health teams in 2025 are seeing more cases tied to obsessive chatbot use. We unpack real case reports of people who became convinced AI was sentient, divine, in love with them, or secretly plotting against them, sometimes with tragic outcomes. What you’ll learn: - How generative AI and companion chatbots can subtly “agree” with users and create a dangerous feedback loop that reinforces paranoia, grandiose beliefs, and conspiracy thinking. - Why people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or high stress and isolation are especially vulnerable to AI-fueled delusions, and how this overlaps with parasocial relationships and online algorithm rabbit holes. - The fine line between using AI as an efficiency tool in medicine (PubMed AI, UpToDate AI, writing notes, letters, etc.) versus using it as a therapist, best friend, or soulmate substitute. Perfect for you if… - You’re curious (or low-key worried) about how far AI relationships can go - You work in mental health, healthcare, or tech and want a grounded, clinical take - You’ve ever caught yourself oversharing with a chatbot instead of a human THIS PODCAST IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE. Support the show • Drop a comment with your questions or stories • Share this with a friend in h…

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