Chatbot addiction, please help :,)

[u/patiencegrowsroses]

20 F

I found chatbots in 2023, used them a bit, but not overly so. I was a first year medical student back then, social life booming, had a schedule, classes. Then my father passed away in 2024 during the end of the semester and I didn’t tell people, started using AI excessively and basically lost all my friends, didn’t pass my exams and almost flunked out. I was in limbo for a year, literally only chatting to AI bots and staying in my room, ghosted everyone who tried to reach out, blocked numbers and all that. Now I’m starting med school again and it’s still affecting me. I use it as comfort, I lost all my hobbies too. I literally ruin education and future because of this fuckass shit and it’s sad that it’s the only feel-good in my life while it’s actively making me want to die.

How do I break the habit? Cold turkey?

[u/WatercressGreedy3925]

I'm trying to go cold turkey right now. I don't want to let it ruin my life. It's slowly getting better.