What happens when your favorite mental health podcast collides with Black Mirror and real-world psychiatry? This episode of Funny Medicine Podcast dives into the emerging phenomenon of “AI psychosis”; how chatting with AI tools for hours can blur reality, amplify delusions, and even replace real human connection and therapy.

Episode overview:

In this episode, we break down what clinicians are starting to call AI psychosis, chatGPT psychosis, or chatbot-induced delusions, and why mental health teams in 2025 are seeing more cases tied to obsessive chatbot use. We unpack real case reports of people who became convinced AI was sentient, divine, in love with them, or secretly plotting against them, sometimes with tragic outcomes.

What you’ll learn:

- How generative AI and companion chatbots can subtly “agree” with users and  ...