Rada Dagher

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional. And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it. The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening. This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free. A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action. So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying. Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough. Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation. Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally. The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model. What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

@Dostoevskyquot White nights, followed by Dream of a Ridiculous Man, the Idiot, then Notes from the Underground

“Trauma can leave epigenetic traces across generations…” Dr Hannah Critchlow explored this at the intersection of neuroscience and epigenetics (the study of how experiences can leave chemical marks on DNA that affect how genes are expressed). 🔗londonspeakerbureau.com/speaker-profil…

Crying is the body's way of processing emotions. Apologizing for crying or telling someone to stop crying blocks our brain from releasing painful events. The Science of Tears:

@kayagenc @ForeignPolicy Insightful analysis!

No evidence that medicinal cannabis effectively treats anxiety, depression, or PTSD - according to the largest review of cannabinoids ever conducted.

sentimental value (2025)

BREAKING: Sentimental Value is the Winner of the #Oscar for Best International Film

Psychological stress from childhood adversity doesn't just affect mental health. A new study shows that trauma like family disruption physically damages the immune and metabolic systems of children as early as age 13. dlvr.it/TRVLsk

"The mechanization of modern life has already influenced man to become more passive and to adjust himself to ready-made conformity. No longer does man think in personal values, following more his own conscience and ethical evaluations; he thinks more and more in the values brought to him by mass media. Headlines in the morning paper give him his temporary political outlook, the radio blasts suggestions into his ears, television keeps him in continual awe and passive fixation." --Joost Meerloo

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.. 😊

Modern psychology has a long history of diagnosing sensitive, awakened, and highly creative people as sick. Conforming to the system doesn't mean you're well.

“The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.”

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Imbalance in gut microbial interactions as a marker of health and disease This index separated healthy individuals from those with disease, and in conditions such as colorectal cancer it tracked progression as the disease👨‍⚕️ 👉"Our model and metric reveal that positive interactions dominate in diseased gut microbiomes, whereas negative interactions dominate in healthy ones." science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Your gut is not just digesting food. It is actively signaling your brain, immune system, and metabolism. *️⃣Microbial metabolites influence neurotransmitter synthesis and signaling *️⃣Gut bacteria shape immune tone and systemic inflammation *️⃣Metabolic byproducts affect insulin sensitivity and energy balance

A new study suggests that Transcendental Meditation may calm genes linked to aging and stress. Just a few quiet moments each day could shape us at the cellular level, helping us age more gracefully and handle life’s pressures with greater ease. goodnewsnetwork.org/transcendental…

The relationship between nutrition and mental health is bidirectional: the foods we eat affect our mental health, and our mental health status affects what and how well we eat. ow.ly/j3fM50YlSzP