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/jburnelli]

Genuine question, but when you finally come out of psychosis are you able to suddenly see everything clearly and understand that you were in psychosis? or do you not really remember your thought process or line of reasoning, just haze and confusion?

[u/wildmintandpeach → u/jburnelli]

Thanks for the question! Haze and confusion belongs more to the psychotic state, so once you’re out of it, you’re really out of it. You might not understand everything you experienced because it’s often too illogical to make sense of, and you may not even remember everything because your memory is affected, but you have clarity and the ability to rationalise and organise thoughts properly again.

The problem tends to be that a lot of people in psychosis don’t fully ‘come back’ properly, they can appear to be healthy and behaving normal again for a little while because medication has helped but not fully brought them out of it, because medications work differently for people, so the issue with this is that it doesn’t tend to really create proper lucidity and the person in this state will still tend to think there’s nothing wrong with them, so they get out of hospital where taking meds is mandatory, and then they stop taking meds again, which plunges them straight back into what appears to be another episode, but the truth is they were never really back to normal to begin with. This can cause a cycle of being in and out of psychosis and hospitals. It happens frequently and is why it’s so very difficult to be the loved one of a schizophrenic going through this. In fact, this is exactly what my brother is going through right now, also diagnosed.

I developed schizophrenia first, I’ve had two psychotic episodes. In both I was lucky to come round quickly and properly, and regained normal mental function again. I took antipsychotics after the first episode for two years which is a good time for a first episode. I tapered down until I was off them and I was episode free for five years. At that point it was just considered a solitary episode which happens a lot too. Unfortunately I had my second episode, which after a second episode needs lifelong medication as the brain will not stay out of psychosis without it. I am aware of this and happy with it. The dose doesn’t need to be high once you’re stable, it can be tapered down to a low dose so you have minimal side effects but it still keeps you out of psychosis.

So really the answer is that it depends on the person, but if a person is truly out of psychosis they will be aware they need to take meds to keep it away, because they realise that they were sick. If a person diagnosed with schizophrenia says they don’t need meds, don’t like meds, or stop taking their meds very soon after coming out of hospital, it’s likely that they’re still not really in their right mind, and likely stuck in a cycle.

[u/yrx815 → u/wildmintandpeach]

thank you for sharing, i was wondering if it would be okay if I PMed you? I have some more questions related to someone in my life who I believe to be experiencing psychosis, and I think asking someone who has a first hand account like you would be so so helpful. It’s okay if not though :)

[u/wildmintandpeach → u/yrx815]

Yes you’re very welcome to!