Talking to AI for reassurance is a compulsion.
Googling symptoms, asking ChatGPT ādoes this sound like cancer,ā sending your friendās texts to Claude to analyze, itās all the same compulsion dressed up as ādoing researchā or ābeing proactive about my health.ā
And AI is actually worse than Google for this because itās conversational, endlessly patient, and will keep engaging with your spiral as long as you want. Itās a candy dispenser that never runs out.
