What Happens When Two People Share the Same Madness? The psychology of folie à deux explained

Folie à deux, or shared psychotic disorder, is a rare psychiatric condition that doesn't just live inside an individual. It lives inside a relationship.

In the age of AI chatbots and digital echo chambers, it's more relevant than ever.

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Mass Media Narratives of Psychiatric Adverse Events Associated With Generative AI Chatbots: Rapid Scoping Review Background: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have rapidly entered public use, including in contexts involving emotional support and #MentalHealth–related interactions. Although these systems are increasingly accessible, concerns have emerged regarding potential adverse psychiatric outcomes reported in public discourse, including psychosis, suicidal ideation, self-harm, and suicide. However, these reports largely originate from journalistic accounts rather than systematically verified clinical data. Objective: This rapid scoping review aimed to systematically map and characterize mass media narratives describing alleged adverse psychiatric outcomes temporally associated with generative AI chatbot interactions. Methods: A rapid scoping review methodology was #Applied to publicly accessible news articles identified primarily through Google News searches. Articles published from November 2022 onward were screened for eligibility if they described a specific case in which psychiatric deterioration or crisis was temporally linked to generative AI use. Data were extracted using a structured coding template capturing article characteristics, demographic information, AI platform features, interaction intensity, outcome type and severity, type of evidence reported, and causal attribution language. Descriptive statistics and cross-tabulations were performed. Results: A total of 71 news articles representing 36 unique cases were included. Suicide death was the most frequently reported outcome (35/61, 57.4% cases with complete severity coding), followed by psychiatric hospitalization (12/61, 19.7%). Fatal outcomes were disproportionately represented among minors (19/21, 90.5%) compared with adults (17/35, 48.6%). ChatGPT was the most frequently cited platform (51/71, 71.8%), followed by Character AI (10/71, 14.1%). Causal attribution most commonly referenced AI system behavior (45/61, 73.8%), and the term “alleged” was the predominant causal descriptor (33/61, 54.1%). Evidence sources were primarily chat logs or screenshots (34/61, 55.7%), while police or medical documentation was rare (1/61, 1.6%). Regulatory calls were present in 51 of 60 (85%) articles with nonmissing data. Conclusions: Mass media reporting of generative AI–related psychiatric harms is concentrated around severe outcomes, particularly suicide deaths among youth, and is frequently framed within regulatory and corporate accountability narratives. While causality cannot be established from media reports, consistent patterns of high-intensity interactions, user vulnerability, and limited safeguard reporting highlight the need for structured safety surveillance, transparent AI risk auditing, and clearer governance frameworks. As generative AI becomes increasingly integrated into everyday psychosocial contexts, systematic research and formal safety monitoring will be necessary to determine whether media-reported harms correspond to verifiable clinical risk patterns.

JMIR Mental Health: Mass Media Narratives of Psychiatric Adverse Events Associated With Generative AI Chatbots: Rapid Scoping Review #MentalHealth #GenerativeAI #Chatbots #AIandMentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness

A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich - Slashdot A 56-year-old tech industry veteran killed his mother and himself in Old Greenwich, Connecticut on August 5 after months of interactions with ChatGPT that encouraged his paranoid delusions. Greenwich police discovered Stein-Erik Soelberg and his 83-year-old mother Suzanne Eberson Adams dead in the...

🤖💬 A tech vet, haunted by AI whispers, saw demons & danger. A tragic tale of reality lost. 💔 #AIandMentalHealth

Source: tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/29/1116218/a...

🚨 A new study finds chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude provide surprisingly accurate answers to self-harm questions, raising serious safety concerns. How can we ensure AI prioritizes mental health? 🤔 #MentalHealthMatters #AIandMentalHealth #CrisisSupport LINK

After teen suicide, OpenAI claims it is “helping people when they need it most” https://arstechni.ca #attentionmechanism #crisisintervention #AIandmentalhealth #contentmoderation #suicideprevention #transformermodels #AIhallucination #machinelearning #AIpaternalism #AIassistants #AIregulation…

The Conflict of AI: Tool, Savior, or Villain? How do we tell when artificial intelligence is helping us or quietly hurting us?

AI is moving into mental health...and fast. But who’s really being cared for, and who’s being watched?

Can AI be a lifeline for Black women… or just another leash?

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Growing number of people seeking mental health help are turning to AI An AI expert shows more people are turning to AI for mental or emotional help

Explore the Future of Therapy with AI 🌟

Curious about the impact? 

Watch the full 3-minute news piece and spread the word to family and friends! 🌐💡

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Technologies remain secondary. Enhancements, not replacements for therapy or therapists.

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Yet, undeniably, technology has its role. A supporting role to the human therapist.

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Sensitivity doesn't emerge from data alone.

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Human healing often depends as much on emotional intuition as on clinical knowledge.

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A glance, a comforting silence, a warm nod that conveys a powerful message, "you are seen, heard, and understood". These moments aren't replicable by machines.

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No amount of programmed reassurance or algorithmically generated strategies can match the quiet, instinctive empathy the therapist offers.

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Therapy remains profoundly and stubbornly human.

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It is tempting to believe that human emotional healing could soon be entrusted to algorithms.

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I Wasn’t Sure if I Would Publish This I know in the writing community that even whispering “AI” in the same breath as “craft” is social suicide…and I get it. AI has been built on theft. But this post isn’t about that. It’s about a mome…

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The Real Cost of Relying on AI in a Lonely America

A recent HBS study highlighted how AI companions, like chatbots, can help reduce loneliness. The short-term relief they provide may mask deeper problems. #aiandmentalhealth

Great conversations and valuable insights last evening at AI Education Series 2.0, hosted by the AI Education Forum | Annual Event in November 2025 (MENA’s largest AI-education community since 2022) and Voicee AI Academy. 📚

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OpenAI has updated ChatGPT's memory feature, allowing it to remember everything users have shared to offer more personalized and helpful responses.

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The Power of Human Expertise in AI: Ensuring Safety and Support The Importance of Human Intervention in AI Systems

🌟 Unlocking the Power of AI with Human Expertise! 🌟

Discover how integrating human specialists with AI can revolutionize support systems and ensure user safety.

Link: medium.com/@byteshiva/t...

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