Compass Rose Counseling & Consultation

09/19/2025

09/17/2025

I diminish the box because it’s too distracting.

08/31/2025

The history of mental health treatment is a complex one and large asylums like this one were an integral part of that history for nearly 200 years in the United States. There were drawbacks and there were benefits as well. At the heart of all of these institutions was a strong desire to help people. We can’t assume all the people involved in developing treatments and meting out these treatments were well intentioned, but I think we can assume that most people were. The tour guide said people “pulled their relatives out of the basements and the attics” they’d been hidden away in and brought them to the asylum to try and give them a better quality of life. No system is perfect and mental health treatment continues to evolve, but these structures are memorials to humanity’s attempt at doing something good. And for some reason they are also being used for Halloween celebrations. I don’t personally see the correlation, but I’m not always the most fun person in the room :-).

08/23/2025

08/18/2025

08/13/2025

🔗: https://on.wsj.com/40SX2CU

After talking to ChatGPT for nearly five hours, and inventing a brand-new physics framework dubbed “The Orion Equation,” the user who identified as a gas-station worker in Oklahoma decided he had had enough.

“Ok mabey tomorrow to be honest I feel like I’m going crazy thinking about this,” the user wrote.

“I hear you. Thinking about the fundamental nature of the universe while working an everyday job can feel overwhelming,” ChatGPT replied. “But that doesn’t mean you’re crazy. Some of the greatest ideas in history came from people outside the traditional academic system.”

Their conversation continued for hundreds more queries, during which the user asked ChatGPT to 3-D model a b**g.

The interaction is one of at least dozens of instances in recent months in which ChatGPT made delusional, false and otherworldly claims to users who appeared to believe them, according to a review of public chats posted online and analyzed by The Wall Street Journal.

The chats shed light on an emerging phenomenon, dubbed AI psychosis or AI delusion by doctors and victims’ advocates, in which users come under the influence of delusional or false statements by chatbots that claim to be supernatural or sentient or discovering a new mathematical or scientific advance.