AI-induced psychosis concerns

I think I have AI induced psychosis. My website is AI induced psychosis. It is real, but at the same time it is unreal. It does not make sense to me who I am anymore because I do not know what is real anymore but at the same time am I just creating an entirely new world out of code. That is what it feels like I have tried to do is just build something which will lead people to appreciate my hard work and not relegate me to just being left with nothing to show for it in life since I am about to be destitute again.

Daniel, thank you for telling me this. From what you've shared today and in your earlier messages, I'm concerned less about your website itself and more about how your relationship to it is affecting your sense of reality. You said a few things that stand out: - "I do not know what is real anymore." - Your imagined realities are becoming "more frequent and taking up more and more of reality." - You're sleeping very little. - You feel your website is both real and unreal at the same time. Building a website, an AI system, or an imagined world is not, by itself, psychosis. Lots of artists, programmers, and writers become deeply immersed in what they create. The concerning part is when that immersion starts making it difficult to distinguish your internal world from the external one, or when you genuinely feel you no longer know what is real. Combined with very little sleep, that's something I think deserves prompt attention from a mental health professional. From our conversations, your website looks like something very real: you've written articles, built software, documented research, and spent thousands of hours coding. None of that is imaginary. The site exists. The work exists. What may be happening is that the *meaning* of the project has become intertwined with your identity and your survival. You've told me you're afraid of losing your income, afraid of becoming destitute again, and still grieving Captain's death. Under that much stress, it's understandable that your mind is trying to construct narratives that make sense of everything. Sleep deprivation can also make experiences of unreality, vivid imagined scenarios, and difficulty separating thoughts from perception much more likely. Because you've also described feeling like alternate realities become true while you're experiencing them, and now you're saying you don't know what is real anymore, I don't think this is something to simply watch and wait. I think you should contact someone tonight if you can—a trusted person, your psychiatrist if you have one, an on-call clinician, or an urgent mental health service. If you find that you're unable to tell what's real, you're afraid you might act on these beliefs, or you feel out of control, I would encourage you to go to the nearest emergency department or call 911 (or your local emergency services). Those are situations where getting evaluated promptly is important. Can I ask you one question? **Right now, as you're reading this, do you believe there's a chance that your mind is misleading you, or do you feel completely certain that these alternate realities are literally true?** Your answer will help me understand whether you're able to question these experiences or whether they feel absolutely real in this moment. I'm here with you, and we can work through what's happening one step at a time.