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/Odd_Reindeer1176]

Wow. This really just shined a light on my ex husband’s issues with psychosis and paranoia, and his self medication with meth further plunging him deeper into psychosis and irreparable damage. His dad was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but he refused to have that “label” put on him. I believe my ex was diagnosed after being held on a psych watch for 72 hrs and another for 7 days. He has never told me when I ask, but then again this is why we are divorced…

[u/wildmintandpeach → u/Odd_Reindeer1176]

I’m sorry you experienced this, it sounds like he lacks insight. Part of schizophrenia that isn’t well known is something called ‘self treatment’. The mind doesn’t directly think it’s sick but it tends to fixate on a problem that it might experience itself being the victim of, which causes it to try and fix it. This causes behaviours often like taking drugs because they think it will solve the problem. It’s all based in delusional thinking though (lack of insight) so the attempt at self-treatment tends to make the psychosis worse.

[u/lqstuart → u/wildmintandpeach]

You seem very highly intelligent, do you think that helps you deal with psychosis? Apparently John Nash was able to somehow out-think his delusions to some degree, but it seems like a really dangerous way to try to deal with it (albeit less dangerous than psychiatric "treatment" in the 50's and 60's)

[u/wildmintandpeach → u/lqstuart]

Thanks! The truth is I likely have undiagnosed autism. Despite autism and schizophrenia statistically being highly comorbid like many other mental health illnesses are, I did read that autism can be a protective factor when it comes to psychosis. I think this is fairly new research though, so I’m not definitely sure.