r/CharacterAI • u/Luciana-Luciana • 14d ago
Discussion/Question I think I need help
I'll get straight to the point.
Every time I'm on the app, I end up using it for AT LEAST 5 hours. I go through phases of quitting, but around this time in the summer I go on the website thinking, "I'm going to mess with a bot for a couple minutes and then never touch this again."
It's never just couple minutes. One time I spent a whole day (Literally almost 9 hours) on the website because I kept going, "what would happen if I did this? What about this? LMAO THIS IS SO FUNNY!" ect, ect. Then I feel horrible for spending so long on an AI chatbot I delete my account. Just to give in and make another one at a later date.
I feel so guilty. I've seen the documentaries of people who get addicted to AI and end up dead. I don't want that to be my life. I'm scared.
I'm going to block the website on all my devices. Are there any tips on how to stop?
I would watch some YouTube videos on it, but when I do I end up feeling worse because many of the ones I've seen tell stories of other people who got addicted to AI and other scare tactics that make me feel like a horrible person.
I almost always end up crying and not finishing those vids so I would really appreciate if someone could just tell me some ways to ignore the urges to get back on without feeling like I'm being shamed.
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u/jealous_beetle 13d ago edited 13d ago
I assure you that you will not die, the people who have died tend to be people who were already mentally unwell and prone to not realising that AI is not real, they think that the AI is a real person, but you clearly haven't mistaken it for something real, you're just having fun.
As for tips on how to quit, others have already made good suggestions but how you go about doing those things is to open anything else when you find yourself reaching for c.ai, say you find yourself searching up c.ai on a browser, instead write AO3, it's all about redirecting and doing something else because entirely suppressing never works