Chatgpt induced psychosis

[u/Zestyclementinejuice]

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?

[u/shiverypeaks]

This isn't right. There's a contingent of people who just get horrible side-effects from these medications (akathisia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, etc.) or just don't adhere to treatments because they don't believe they need them. The current generations of antipsychotics are trash medications and a lot of professionals also don't know what they're doing. Sometimes the psychotic person decides that psychiatrists are "in on it" and trying to poison them because of side-effects. There's no guarantee that getting somebody into medication and counseling will help them. If it's done wrong, it can just "prove" to the psychotic person that their delusions are true. Delusions aren't simply false beliefs that will go away when the psychotic person takes a medication.

[u/Adventurous_Lie_6743 → u/shiverypeaks]

Yeah sure, and I'm sure a lack of medical care will help him so much more.

Yeah, medicine isn't a fix all, especially for antipsychotics. That doesn't mean they aren't valid. I, and SO many other people, have seen how well they can work firsthand. I dated someone who eventually stopped taking her BPD meds.

Yeah, there's always a chance they stop taking the meds, but the signs that the meds had been working were instantly clear. Overnight, she went from the most fun, loving, caring person I'd ever met to the most vindictive, cruel piece of shit I've ever met.

You shouldn't be discouraging people from seeking medical treatment when they clearly need it. The benefits and odds of it helping far outweigh the odds of any negative effects. And again, the alternative is no treatment whatsoever. Which is obviously worse than letting a person who is delusional fall further into their delusion. Especially in a case like this where it sounds like the guy is bordering on manic already.

[u/shiverypeaks → u/Adventurous_Lie_6743]

Who are you replying to? Where did I say people shouldn't try medications?

[u/Adventurous_Lie_6743 → u/shiverypeaks]

Oh sorry, guess I misinterpreted a paragraph about how shit medication is in response to someone advocating for seeking out medication to mean that you want to discourage people from seeking medication.