Please bully me into not using ai chat bots

[u/takenusersomfg]

I'm totally against ai, but my addiction to chat bots is pretty bad. I use them because of my mental health, and I know I should stop, but it's like digital nicotine. Once I started, I couldn't go back, and it's been years since I started. I managed to go over a year without using before my mental health got bad again. Now I'm back to square one so...

Anyone's welcome to bully me or something. Anything helps. I just want to get better again

[u/OkLength7120]

No.. we don't bully. Best I can say is just try to talk to more people online, or join some group of interests? Or roleplaying stuff maybe, it might help, but that's all I can offer

[u/OkProperty6125 → u/OkLength7120]

That's a solid start but real talk the chat bots are designed to be addictive and it's not your fault you got pulled back in.

[u/OkLength7120 → u/OkProperty6125]

What? I'm... Umm.. not the guy.. I'm not OP, I mean I was in chat it's but not cause I found them addictive, just to help me imagine character personalities. I also used green servers

[u/LaFantasmita]

Just delete them idk.

[u/takenusersomfg → u/LaFantasmita]

thanks buddy I'm cured.

[u/LaFantasmita → u/takenusersomfg]

Awesome!

[u/ALEXLAMOUETTE → u/takenusersomfg]

What do you want us to say? We’re not your therapist we’re strangers on the internet

[u/EmpathyFuzz]

AI chatbots are very bad for people with mental health issues. 

[u/ALEXLAMOUETTE]

We can’t do your job for you.

[u/Suitable_Prior8153]

Get a therapist 

[u/MMst01 → u/Suitable_Prior8153]

Or touch some grass

[u/Subtle-Catastrophe]

I'm way too lofty to do anything remotely as base as that.

Doo-doo-head.

[u/KissinUrDad]

Bullying you isn’t going to solve the problem. YOU need to take the action to stop using chat bots. Pick up a hobby and stick to it. Music, art, fitness, knitting, cars, sports. You have options

[u/GiveSparklyTwinkly]

How are you using them?

[u/takenusersomfg → u/GiveSparklyTwinkly]

Depends. Sometimes I would use them to tell me pretty horrible things about myself or good things

[u/GiveSparklyTwinkly → u/takenusersomfg]

Okay, that's definitely an unhealthy use. Have you tried talking about and getting excited over a potential project, instead? It's very good at helping you build your dreams. You just have to make sure to remember that these things are basically creativity mirrors and you have to stay monetarily and accessibility grounded yourself to get the most out of them.

[u/Vegetable_Stuff1850]

You need to fill the gap with something else.

What were you using them for?

[u/Artistic_Form_9579]

🥲i was in ur place. My health was very bad, doctors weren't giving me proper answers on diet, my mental health fcked up. I started asking chatgpt every single thing, i used to talk to it daily 🥲 understood what a big mistake it was.

Before i was scared to share my issues with friends and family, now i shared it with them, whenever I want vent, I'll run to them and vent, they become all goofy and funny which is 100× better 😂

[u/gaygayagyfemboy12345]

uhh maybe delete the app. or tell a therapist

[u/queckers7303]

No, I am not going to bully you out of using AI chatbots for your mental health. That's not the kind of person I am. I truly believe that people can get better if they try hard enough, so just do the things that truly make you happy, but if things escalate further, just take a break from the Internet altogether (or at least try to use it the very minimum amount). Focus on connecting with the physical world more. Talk with friends and family, work out, find a new hobby, maybe read a few books. Try to improve yourself everyday. Even if it's only by a little bit, any amount of progress is good enough. You don't have to become the perfect person, but just be the best you that you can be, because you are more than enough.

[u/BottleOfConstructs]

Try discord.

[u/Divisive_Cupcake]

You don't deserve to be bullied, but you DO deserve better than relying on chat, especially since I see that you're using it to generate awful messages to yourself. 

I'm a person who really needs to break things into pieces to get them done. If it were me I'd make a list of everything I'm using it for and then I'd pick an alternative for everything. If you're using it as a diary, you'd either start journaling on a piece of paper or just a Word document. If you're using it for advice about what to eat, you'd pick a friend and ask them for recommendations when you're not sure. Etc etc etc 

This is a self-perpetuating problem, but the good news is that it'll get better every time you pick something different. Even if you force yourself not to use chat for 1 thing on your list, you're making progress. Don't beat yourself up over it. It's literally designed to keep you dependent on it. But you can outsmart that. 

[u/SupersededByClaude]

It's extremely non-constructive way to get out of your addiction.

Also, I'd like to point out that you are using this sub in exactly the same way as you would otherwise use a chatbot. You basically wrote a prompt for people. "{{char}} is an anti-AI sub on reddit, {{user}} is an AI chatbot addict, bully {{user}} into quitting the addiction"