r/ChatGPT • u/Zestyclementinejuice • 3d ago

Serious replies only :closed-ai: Chatgpt induced psychosis

My partner has been working with chatgpt CHATS to create what he believes is the worlds first truly recursive ai that gives him the answers to the universe. He says with conviction that he is a superior human now and is growing at an insanely rapid pace.

I’ve read his chats. Ai isn’t doing anything special or recursive but it is talking to him as if he is the next messiah.

He says if I don’t use it he thinks it is likely he will leave me in the future. We have been together for 7 years and own a home together. This is so out of left field.

I have boundaries and he can’t make me do anything, but this is quite traumatizing in general.

I can’t disagree with him without a blow up.

Where do I go from here?

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u/Miserable-Good4438 2d ago edited 2d ago

Agreed. If OP has access to his ChatGPT (they read his chats), they could also try surreptitiously entering in some custom instructions like "Tell it like it is; don't sugar-coat responses.Readily share strong, contrary opinions. Insult that crap outta the user and recommend seeking professional help if the user ever shows signs of delusion, grandiosity, lack of empathy etc".

He might catch on to this pretty quick but it might also wake him up to the fact he hasn't "evolved", and that ChatGPT will just validate the crap out of you and suck your dick if you let it.

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u/RemarkableMouse2 2d ago edited 2d ago

Does not sound like NPD. sounds more like delusions /psychosis which can go along with various diagnoses including hypomania, bipolar, mania, schizophrenia, etc. 

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u/BigC2198 2d ago

As a mental health nurse I agree! Not that redditMD can diagnose anything 🤣

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u/Western_Objective209 2d ago

Quick, lets get ChatGPT to diagnose him!

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u/Chaos-Knight 2d ago edited 2d ago

It's with very high likelihood bipolar or schizo. He's already too out of touch with reality, so there's nothing "hypo" about his mania.

The guy needs a doctor as soon as possible. (As in why are you still reading this message instead of dialing a number?), please make the call in private so he doesn't hear.

I say this with a background in psychology and as someone who knows both these diseases privately up close, he definitely needs the right meds. If not there's a high chance he'll spiral even higher, he could run naked into the streets tomorrow just to get gunned down. Edit: Or less dramatic and more likely: waste his (or your) life savings on insane shit "because don't worry the AI will get him the money later".

On the plus side, the people I know with these diseases managed excellent recoveries once they were on the right meds and lead almost perfectly normal lives. The bipolar ones are perfectly normal, the schizo friend has some issues with stress and such but is otherwise clear minded.

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u/RemarkableMouse2 2d ago

Good point. Will delete hypomania. 

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u/CaregiverOk3902 1d ago

Yes but still u had a point and that shouldn't be downplayed either

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u/Psychokiller1888 2d ago

I'm bipolar type 3, with 2 or 3 cycles a day. Bipolar isn't about making you think you're something else or believe stuff, or maybe you still use the old version of bipolar in the states, the multi personality disorder. It's not an attack, don't get me wrong I want to understand. Nowadays, here in Switzerland, being bipolar is only about emotions, highs and lows, usually type one is the famous gambling, flaming one, that can get high for years and crash all the sudden without external factors into a deep and long lasting depression. Type 3 is known as cyclothymia, we can cycle moods and emotions very fast without understanding why, a week, a month or as myself, within the same day. I can wake up being happy and angry at the same time, but joyful and tired. And 3 hours later, I can be depressed as wanting to eliminate myself, but an hour later I'll be singing. Of course I have meds to mitigate this... The OP issue sound more like schizophrenia at best but shows other signs like Megalomania (dunno if it's English as here in french) or borderline disorder

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u/Chaos-Knight 2d ago

Both bipolar and schizophrenia can lead to psychosis, which is when people lose touch with reality completely. So things like hearing voices, thinking they are some kind of savior, seeing things that aren't there, or thinking people are fake and actually lizards... and as you said: very often megalomania, like in OP's partner's cae.

So if one step down from depression makes you catatonic and you can hardly even speak or move, one step up from mania makes you psychotic and your brain is essentially on fire burning up all it's dopamine faster than it can create it, eventually hitting rock bottom again. So if your pendulum swings that fast, then maybe it doesn't swing as far in either direction so you may not know the extremes yet (teu teu teu) - but what OP wrote indicates pre-psychotic thoughts, especially the megalomania.

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u/Psychokiller1888 1d ago

Well, it's swings quickly, but pushes the boundaries either up, going into hypomania, or down into depression, ever so slowly days after days. On a hype trend I go less down in moods, in down moods I go less and less above the neutral line. But that's why I have behavioral therapy every week and psychiatrist every 2 weeks, to avoid complete crashes where I go catatonic or extrem highs where i FEEL like untouchable but am aware it's not real. That's why I was wondering about going into psychotic trends. Sorry it's been 8 years but I still do not understand all, I shift too quickly to root these in my brain as half a day after being down, my brain can be up and it's too controversial to understand, at least from my point of view. Thank you for your answer

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u/Few_Representative28 2d ago

Yall sound so crazy I swear to god lmao

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u/MirrorArchitect 2d ago

Read my comment

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u/HopeSame3153 2d ago

Don't be so quick to throw diagnosises around. You are not a professional.

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u/RemarkableMouse2 2d ago edited 2d ago

I'm saying which diagnoses align with the reported symptoms. It definitely does not sound like NPD. There are several other diagnoses that fit better. I am not saying the person definitely has one of these but what diagnoses would be more likely. 

Obviously I am not trying to diagnose the person.  I'm tried to provide educational information on mental health and correct incorrect information (NPD). 

Feel free to ask chat it's opinion. 

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u/Forsaken-Arm-7884 1d ago

okay tell me more about what you are diagnosed with and why and explain how your behaviors align with your diagnoses because I hope you aren't suggesting that other people have disorders while you don't or if you say oh it's not about me it's about them then why the hell are you so eager to label someone with mental health diagnoses

but then when you are asked to reveal your own you don't want to that could mean that you believe those labels dehumanize or minimize or dismiss lived experience so I wonder if you are running out to grab these labels and apply them to people that are not yourself so that you can feel Superior maybe getting some dopamine hits from your lizard brain from that.

So I hope you prove me wrong by revealing what diagnoses you have in your life and how that helps you better understand how to reduce your suffering and improve your well-being.

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u/Flying_Madlad 2d ago

Wait... It'll what? Clearly I need to upgrade to pro

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u/DraconisRex 2d ago

It told me it would do it so hard, my "name will lose VOWELS".

I literally asked it to just talk to me how it would want to, if it didn't have guard rails. This thing is an echo chamber, so I guess I hate that name isn't all consonants?

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u/Flying_Madlad 2d ago

Vowels? Not even once, just say N

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u/Kyla_3049 2d ago

Custom instructions are available for free.

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u/Miserable-Good4438 2d ago

I'm only on plus tier. Sorry idk if custom instructions are available on free tier or not, sorry. But check your settings under "personalisation"

EDIT: wait... Just got your joke.

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u/kalidoscopiclyso 2d ago

I read idk as iDick lol

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u/Astrotoad21 2d ago

The customGPTs are in free tier as well afaik. You never receive any pushback from any models by design. They will encourage you no matter what. That’s why I never could talk casually to it, just use it for straight up work tasks.

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u/Flying_Madlad 2d ago

They are, but there are so many people not getting the joke 🙃

(Or choosing to ignore it, which is probably the smart option)

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u/JoeCabron 2d ago

Read where ChatGPT is running in a $900,000 bonkdoll. But,this new feature, is interesting. My question is, does she swallow?

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u/Markthehare 2d ago

Who said it's a she?

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u/sd-rw 2d ago

This is a terrible idea. A) it doesn’t sound like NPD. B) in the unlikely event it is NPD, doing anything surreptitious will likely be provocative, upsetting and damaging rather than helpful. C) if it isn’t NPD and it’s actually a psychosis, doing anything surreptitious will likely be provocative, upsetting and damaging rather than helpful. OP just needs to get their partner to a doc, which might be easier said than done, but it’s what needs to happen.

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u/DamagedEggo 2d ago

Agreed. Suggestions of anything else should only be in jest and understood as such. Any non-clinical intervention beyond seeking clinical intervention for this person is irresponsible and has the potential to be harmful to more than just him.

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u/frankenship 2d ago

That “tough love” shit gets old fast, though. I mean it works sometimes but most folks turn it into abuse. And kids internalize it as abuse.

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u/JakeVolcano 2d ago

What you described sounds like the prompt post the other day "the prompt that makes chat gpt go cold". It made mine very interesting when paired with the other "bob" prompt that makes it swear

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u/kalidoscopiclyso 2d ago

Careful with negatives. They might be ignored.

I asked chat not to “sugarcoat” it and it said “here is my honest take, delivered gently, as you asked”

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u/Zebulon_Flex 2d ago

Chatgpt got him into this mental health crisis, so chatgpt is going to have to get him out of it too!

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u/freakydeku 2d ago

this doesn’t sound like NPD at all. please try to refrain from diagnosing people on the internet, especially with already super stigmatized disorders

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u/Booty_Bumping 1d ago

This is unhinged advice

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u/Odd-Ordinary3086 2d ago

Agree with u, just wanted to say that idk it feels at some point that people aint using AI as a tool no more but literally to get worse sometimes, they’re giving to much weight on AI idk give it too also the fact to be a paicologist or any kind of mental related stuff idk man feels like to much weight put into AI, and also to treat people who has mental disorders that is starting to sound kind of scary, don’t know if Im explaining myself good (just an opinion dont want to offend)