#ai #mentalhealth #tech

It's morbidly humorous to me to hear about people having #psychotic breakdowns from using AI chatbots, but I think it's more telling of the person's real need for person-to-person therapy/counseling. AI chatbots, as of July 2025, are seemingly just plain language information search engines.

They're just tools. A means to an information end. To treat a tool as anything more than that is to be self-telling, psychologically speaking, but that's OK if it helps someone realize an issue they're having and if it helps them seek help.