Think Twice Before Asking ChatGPT About Your Health

A report warns that people with health anxiety can get caught in spirals of fear when they use ChatGPT for medical reassurance.

One Liverpool patient and others described becoming more anxious after interpreting symptoms and test results with the chatbot, then seeking repeated checks.

Therapists say they are seeing more compulsive reassurance-seeking tied to AI health use, including patterns that resemble OCD.

The concern is that health chatbots may worsen anxiety, feed medical misinformation, and delay proper care for vulnerable users.