67. The Girl Who Fell In Love with Her Psychiatrist (AI, Social Media, & Mental Health)

We tried to stay out of this one, we REALLY DID. But when a 50+ part TikTok series about a woman falling in love with your psychiatrist becomes the perfect storm of everything wrong with social media, mental health misinformation, and AI feedback loops, we had to wade in. Spoiler alert: it's messier than we thought. This convo was a wild ride... we started with yoga breaths and ended up dissecting the future of AI-induced psychosis. Did we stick the landing? Let us know!

In conversation, we tackle:

- How we wrestled with whether to even discuss this (and why Amanda watched EVERY video for "research purposes")

- The difference between psychiatry and therapy that everyone is missing

- Why "transference" doesn't mean what you think it means (and neither does "countertransference")

- How AI chatbots are literally creating closed feedback loops that reinforce delusions

- The armchair diagnosis Olympics happening in the comments and why it's harmful to actual people with ADHD and autism

- How people are treating this like reality TV they can influence instead of someone's mental health crisis

- Why Amanda and Sam are questioning their own social media consumption after this

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