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

About this episode

This episode explores the phenomenon of 'AI psychosis' and its implications for mental health as people increasingly interact with chatbots.

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…

People in this episode

Hosts: Julia Brunet, Yvette Gonzalez, D.O.

Topics covered

• AI psychosis
• mental health
• chatbots
• delusions
• human connection
• therapy
• generative AI

Keywords

• AI psychosis
• chatbots
• mental health
• delusions
• generative AI
• therapy
• human connection

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ChatGPT, PubMed AI, UpToDate AI

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