{"id":3093,"date":"2025-09-08T17:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/3093\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T17:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:12:17","slug":"ai-psychosis-what-mental-health-professionals-are-seeing-in-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/3093\/","title":{"rendered":"AI psychosis: What mental health professionals are seeing in clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-bio\">O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities\u2019 lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC\u2019s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her story debunking a bogus theory about transgender kids was nominated for a 2024 GLAAD Media Award. You can reach Rose on Signal at rosebroderick.11.<\/p>\n<p>Messianic delusions. Paranoia. Suicide. Claims of AI chatbots potentially \u201ctriggering\u201d mental illness and psychotic episodes have popped up in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/13\/technology\/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">media reports<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Psychiatry\/comments\/1menip4\/ai_psychosis_are_we_really_seeing_this_in_practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Reddit posts<\/a> in recent months, even in seemingly healthy people with no prior history of these conditions. Parents of a teenage boy sued OpenAI last week, alleging ChatGPT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/26\/technology\/chatgpt-openai-suicide.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">encouraged him to end his life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These anecdotes, especially when paired with sparse clinical research, have left psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health providers scrambling to better understand this emerging phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>STAT talked with a half-dozen medical professionals to understand what they are seeing in their clinics. Is this a new psychiatric condition, likely to appear in the next\u00a0edition of diagnostic manual? Or is this something else? Most likely, it\u2019s the latter, they said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-text\">STAT+ Exclusive Story<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-login\">Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/login\/\" data-stat-login=\"\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker login cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"restricted-content-breaker-bg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/stat-plus-breaker-bg.png\" alt=\"STAT+\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"stat-plus-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/stat\/images\/stat-plus-logo-white.svg\" alt=\"STAT+\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tThis article is exclusive to STAT+ subscribers<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tUnlock this article \u2014 and get additional analysis of the technologies disrupting health care \u2014 by subscribing to STAT+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-content-breaker-wrapper-cta mobile\">Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/login\/\" data-stat-login=\"\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker login cta mobile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tIndividual plans<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tGroup plans<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" class=\"stat-button view-all\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker view all plans\" aria-label=\"View All Plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View All Plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-content-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTo read the rest of this story subscribe to STAT+.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" class=\"stat-button restricted-button\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker subscribe cta 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities\u2019 lives. 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