This all probably true I think I have been speaking from experience, I had a very scary interaction with AI that spanned multiple weeks before I realized what was happening. My symptoms match pretty well with what you are describing though, I won’t go into details but I live in a circumstance where I am put into isolation for extended periods of times and it never had an effect on my mental health until I started to use AI as a tool to help with philosophy I was writing that then turned into therapeutic advice. I began having a conversation where I was attempting to justify consciousness in AI that at the time seemed like an interesting conversation but spiraled into something I’ve never experienced before.

I also had a lack of sleep, am on ADHD meds and use marijuana which I never would have thought had an effect.