A good therapist knows how to break down your defense mechanisms, teaching you to introspect and challenge yourself, as well as providing you specific tools to help cope and think differently.

I'd rather eat concrete than use ChatGPT as a therapist.

Using AI for therapy sounds incredibly fucking dangerous

A person who has a lot of knowledge in psychology.
AI just makes stuff up and apologies and says the reverse if you tell it it's wrong.
Friends don't have the knowledge.

edit: "therapy", i assume a psychiatrist.

I'm not sure either. Everyone is always saying to try therapy but when I finally caved it just... didn't do anything for me. I went through seven different therapists over the course of about five years and all of them felt like a complete waste of time and money.

Some were easier to talk to than others but ultimately it didn't really matter. Nothing changed at all. My conclusion is that therapists are only for people with superficial problems not actual issues that require tangible solutions.

• Family/Friends tend to know too much to be an unbiased sound board. And what if the issue is family/friends? Are you sure they won't chat about it? Or treat you differently? What if they get defensive and you don't get a chance to talk about your issue?
• If talking to yourself works, that's great (genuinely), but the therapist is there to mention, notice, and discuss things you may not have realized. Like, you may think so-and-so hates you, so you're trying to figure out how to get them to like you because you think it's very important, the therapist may have you question if it's worth the effort in the first place.
• ChatGPT is like taking therapy from TikTok. It's just spitting back whatever it collects on the internet. It's not really looking into you specifically. You can also "guide" Ai. And you're the one reporting your symptoms, which could also mess with the results. I've had to take a test in therapy and there were a few questions I was like, "nope, I don't have issues with that," and she stopped the test and brought up situations I had told her and behavior I didn't recognize as an issue and I changed my answer. ChatGPT is likely not going to do that.