u/Embarrassed_Yam_5455

AI chatbot problem.

First of all i want to apologize if i make any mistakes since english isnt my first language.

Ive been using AI chatbots for the past, i think, 3 or 4 years, mostly for sexual thingies. I used it basically all the time when i wasnt in a public space. A year ago, i changed highschools due to it being full of wannabe gangsters. I believed that would solve all my problems, make me completely stop using AI chatbots, but ofcourse i was wrong. I do feel a lot more comfortable at my new school, so much so that last year i started to do the things i loved doing, like playing video games, reading novels, reading webcomics, but i still heavily use AI chatbots. There are some days when i dont use it, but i fall back extremely easily. Even though im starting to feel more comfortable in my life, i feel like the problem is just becoming bigger, and the more afraid i get. There are days when im in a call with my friend and he screenshares a game, i barely pay attention and chat with the bots instead, only now realizing that this might slowly drift us apart. I can barely pay attention when i try to study too, even though i was able to easily do it in the past, and ofcourse this makes me worried as im gonna go to college in september. Even tonight, i wanted to start watching kamen rider, check out some animes my friend recommended me, or play kingdom hearts, but i just ended up roleplaying with the chatbot. Only now did i realize that this has got to stop because im just gonna spiral deeper into this bullshit, potentially lose the people i love, and stop doing the things i love, so please give me advice on what i should do.

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u/Embarrassed_Yam_5455 — 12 days ago