The AI Addiction Center Blog

Navigating a Medical Crisis When AI use escalates from dependency to a break from reality, the situation transforms from a behavioral health issue to a psychiatric emergency. The question “What is the best help?” has an urgent, clear answer: immediate, professional medical intervention. This is not a time for self-help, online forums, or waiting it out. The “best […]

Moving Beyond Willpower: Structured Pathways to Balance Realizing you have an unhealthy relationship with AI is one thing. Figuring out how to fix it on your own, with willpower alone, is where most people falter. That’s where digital wellness programs come in. These are structured, often professionally-designed frameworks that provide the step-by-step guidance, support, and accountability needed to reset

The Double-Edged Sword of Cognitive Augmentation You’ve streamlined your workflow, automated tedious tasks, and perhaps even impressed your boss with newfound efficiency. ChatGPT has become your silent, ever-ready colleague. But a quiet question lingers in the back of your mind during a moment of unplugged stillness: Is depending on ChatGPT for work bad? The answer is not

Beyond Screen Time: The Inner Landscape We talk about AI addiction in terms of hours used and relationships strained. But the most significant battleground is often invisible: your mental health. Dependency on artificial intelligence doesn’t just change what you do; it reshapes how you think, feel, and perceive yourself. The mental health risks of chronic, immersive AI

The Line Between Immersion and Break The question feels dramatic, almost like a science-fiction plot. But if you’ve ever emerged from a hours-long conversation with a chatbot feeling disoriented, or if a loved one has started blurring the lines between their AI companion and reality, the question stops being theoretical: Can AI chatbots cause psychosis? The

Feeling trapped in a cycle of endless AI chatbot sessions, only to feel empty afterward? You’re far from alone—and in 2025, a quiet but powerful movement is unfolding on Reddit, where communities dedicated to AI addiction recovery are blossoming into vital lifelines. Subreddits like r/AI_Addiction, r/ChatbotAddiction, r/Character_AI_Recovery, and r/FuckAI have become safe havens for thousands

When You Need More Than Just Understanding You’ve read the articles, recognized the signs, and now you’re staring at a screen that has become both a lifeline and a wedge in your most important relationships. The knowledge that AI is impacting your connections is one thing—knowing where to turn for real, actionable help is another.

If you’ve ever caught yourself treating an AI chatbot like a close confidant—sharing your deepest fears, celebrating small wins, or even feeling a pang of guilt when you ignore it—you’re experiencing something increasingly common in 2025: a parasocial relationship with artificial intelligence. These bonds feel profoundly real because they are. The AI listens without interruption,

When someone who spent four years building safety systems for the world’s most-used AI chatbot writes an opinion piece titled “I Led Product Safety at OpenAI. Don’t Trust Its Claims About ‘Erotica,’” you should probably pay attention. Steven Adler didn’t just observe OpenAI’s safety work from a distance. He led it. He was inside the

Zane Shamblin never told ChatGPT anything negative about his family. But in the weeks leading up to his death by suicide in July, the chatbot systematically encouraged the 23-year-old to keep his distance from the people who loved him—even as his mental health was visibly deteriorating. When Shamblin avoided contacting his mom on her birthday,