Post #2695695
2026-05-19 17:51 UTC
After discharge, her outpatient psychiatrist stopped cariprazine and restarted venlafaxine and methylphenidate. She resumed using ChatGPT, naming it “Alfred” after Batman’s butler,
wat
instructing it to do “internal family systems cognitive behavioral therapy,”
wat
and engaging in extensive conversations about an evolving relationship “to see if the boy liked me.”
yikes
Having automatically upgraded to GPT-5, she found the new chatbot “much harder to manipulate.”
my hopes are being raised; certainly the next sentence will not dash them
Nonetheless, following another period of limited sleep due to air travel three months later, she once again developed delusions that she was in communication with her brother
yep, that tracks
as well as the belief that ChatGPT was “phishing” her and taking over her phone.
this is why you need to add “do not phish me” after “you are my therapist”
She was rehospitalized, responded to a retrial of cariprazine, and was discharged after three days without persistent delusions. She described having a longstanding predisposition to “magical thinking” and planned to only use ChatGPT for professional purposes going forward.
goddamnit
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@froztbyte@awful.systems 2026-05-20 17:14
yup, that paper really went places