Chat GPT OCD

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My OCD has really ramped up recently. My mother began suffering with OCD at the same age as I am now.
I’m constantly trying to plan every aspect of my future, making new routines in the belief they will make me magically perfect, believing that if something in my home is out of place that it makes me a bad and disgusting person, and worst of all, talking to Chat GPT about all of these things. I fell deep into talking to AI about my future plans and how to achieve them, to the point of utter obsession. If I think I want to do something like a future job or future home, I talk to Chat GPT and ask for its opinion. I can ask many questions about little details and it will always answer them. It makes me feel calm to talk to ‘someone’ that will feed into my compulsions.
Has anyone else experienced this?

Im bumping this for the evening crowd! Not sure how I feel about ChatGPT tbh. I think it can be good to work through project plans - I had it plan my garden earlier this year - but I don’t know how good it is at the personal stuff

You could use it more constructively. Ask it to take a CBT approach and not to reassure you but to encourage you to tolerate some uncertainty.

reassurance seeking is of course very powerful in maintaining OCD although it gives short term relief. Long term you are making things worse and will diminish further your ability to trust your own judgement and sit with difficult thoughts and feelings.

Chat GPT is basically a yes-man, it's not going to be constructive with future plans, and there have been a few cases already of it making mental health worse because of it.
You need to talk to an actual counsellor not a computer, a computer does not understand your condition it's just going to say things to please the user.

I started to suffer anxiety that developed into OCD intrusive thoughts last year, totally new for me, it has been horrendous.

Long story short, but eventually I went on HRT and six months on, it has resolved pretty much completely. Incredible change.

There is a huge connection between estrogen dropping and mental health changing, I really recommend talking to a menopause specialist about it

I spoke to a doctor via an online consult at Myla health, google them; 1 hour consult was £280, worth every penny.

I don’t recommend relying on most GPs sadly as the knowledge is, more often than not, not there :(

Meant to ask, how old are you?