When a man in his 30s was admitted to a psychiatric unit in England during a severe manic episode, his treatment included an antipsychotic, sleep medication, and therapy. It also included an unusual line in his care plan, documented as "no ChatGPT."
The restriction is described in a case report in BMC Psychiatry, published June 4, 2026, by Sachin Shah of South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust and Hamilton Morrin of King's College London. The authors call it one of the first published clinical reports in which a patient perceived his delusions as corroborated by an AI chatbot and the content of those conversations was shared with his doctors.
