Aneeqa

Neuroscience, psychology and mindfulness enthusiast. Psychotherapist, PhD, LPC. Enjoying this ideas 🎡 and learning.

[Aneeqa @mindfulselforg]

Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (James 1:19-22)

[SaltyPsych @saltypsych]

"And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, that He may be with you forever;
the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him because He abides with you and will be in you."

- John 14: 16-17

[Aneeqa @mindfulselforg]

AI for task management: good, for consultation: use with caution- we’re not ready for the AI generated bubble to meet reality

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts.

So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.

What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations.

The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.

Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described.

The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.

The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months.
Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight.

Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now.

She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

[Aneeqa @mindfulselforg]

“Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof, therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices. For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them; but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.”  (Proverbs 1:28–33, ESV)

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Being addicted to your phone is associated with decreased brain volume and activity.

[Aneeqa @mindfulselforg]

Rejoice in the Lord always… Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. (Philippians 4:4–8, ESV)

[Aneeqa @mindfulselforg]

Benefit others and ourselves:
"Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." (Ephesians 4:29)

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Mocking unconsciously repeats negativity and inadvertently shapes your identity.

You become what you repeat.

Neuroplasticity can't decipher between good and bad.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

A walk in nature reduces rumination & brain activity in an area linked to mental illness.

This effect was not seen with a walk in a city.

[Aneeqa @mindfulselforg]

Easy to forget that dissociation, digital or otherwise, is often a symptom and not THE problem

[Jeremy the therapist @psychfox]

Psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams reminds us that every defense was once a creative solution to an intolerable problem. Digital dissociation developed because people needed it. Boredom, loneliness, interpersonal anxiety, grief, overstimulation: these are the emotional symptoms the phone manages. Telling someone to reduce screen time without addressing the underlying distress treats the fever by confiscating their thermometer.
In our clinical work with clients who present with excessive screen time and phone use, we should explore what the screen manages, before recommending reduction. In my experience, the answer is almost always an emotion that the client lacks capacity to tolerate head on. They use the phone as a distracting, temporary balm.

[Aneeqa @mindfulselforg]

Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for from it flow the springs of life.
Put away from you crooked speech,
and put devious talk far from you.
Let your eyes look directly forward,
and your gaze be straight before you.
Ponder the path of your feet;
then all your ways will be sure.
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil. (Proverbs 4:23-27, ESV)

[Aneeqa @mindfulselforg]

@Rhenderson23 @harukaawake 😂

[Aneeqa @mindfulselforg]

"And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, 'Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.'"- Luke 24:5-6

[Aneeqa @mindfulselforg]

@ChrisPalmerMD Do you have a go to resource, someone you’d recommend following in this, and/or have you written about, hormonal interplay for women developing symptoms?

[Aneeqa @mindfulselforg]

On being Holy: “Because our conversion affects our consecration, those who receive positional holiness will be compelled to pursue practical holiness. Jerry Bridges notes: “True salvation brings with it a desire to be made holy””- In His Image, Jen Wilkin

[Aneeqa @mindfulselforg]

Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked (1 John 2:6)
From Jen Wilkin’s In His Image, ten attributes to “walk” and be: Holy, Loving, Good, Just, Merciful, Gracious, Faithful, Patient, Truthful and Wise

[Dr. Dominic Ng @DrDominicNg]

Eight weeks of mindfulness training was associated with increased hippocampal gray-matter concentration on MRI.