AI Psychosis

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Dr Kirk Honda discussed AI psychosis and using AI in therapy.

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September 12, 2025

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0:00.0	Hey, Desirman listeners, I've been receiving a lot of questions about AI psychosis or using AI chatbots,
0:08.3	LLMs like chatGBT and having problems with it. So let's get into it. I also want to talk about
0:15.5	its use as a therapy tool for better for worse. My name is Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and I'm also a
0:23.4	professor. And at the start here, I want to acknowledge that I received emails from patron Michael
0:29.3	from Ireland and also annual highest tier patron and YouTube member, Sandra from Calgary. Both of them
0:37.0	motivated me to talk about this because
0:40.3	they both say that there are numerous articles and accounts of people having problematic use of
0:47.3	AI and lots of talk about AI psychosis. And I recently did a reaction video series to the TikToker named Kendra,
0:59.3	who posted a very viral video series on TikTok titled, I Fell in Love with My Psychiatrist,
1:05.9	because she also would talk about her very intimate relationship with two chatbox that she had named.
1:14.7	One was Henry and the other one was Claude.
1:17.2	And she would do lives where she would interact with these chatbots who from the clips that I saw were very supportive of her what seemed to be very, she seemed to be
1:31.3	very distorted in her view. If you, you know, if you listen to those episodes or watch those
1:36.2	videos, you know, the situation. And that her relationship with AI seemed to exacerbate
1:43.4	the problems that she was potentially suffering from.
1:46.6	It's hard to know from a TikTok video series.
1:48.7	But anyway, so the first thing that I'll say is that we need to be cautious when we are listening to anecdotal data.
1:58.6	You know, I'm old enough to have been through a lot of phases of this,
2:03.6	like when social media first became popular, there was a lot of anecdotes of people having
2:10.2	problems with mental health. Now, does that mean that we discount it because it's anecdotal?
2:16.0	No, but we just have to be careful about it because
2:19.4	it's not sound data. It's not, you know, controlled for. It's just people telling their stories.
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