Comment by theothertimcook

That was a very interesting read, it's funny because I have done and experienced (both sides) of what the LLM did here.

Don't get me wrong there are many phenomenal mental health workers, but it's a taxing role, and the ones that are exceptional posses skills that are far more valuable not dealing with broken people, not to mention the exposure to vicarious trauma.

I think maybe "therapy" is the problem and that open source, local models developed to walk people through therapeutic tools and exercises might be the scalable help that people need.

You only need to look at some of the wild stories on the chatgpt subreddit to start to wonder at it's potential, recently read two stories of posters who self treated ongoing physical conditions using llms (back pin and jaw clicking) only to have several commenters come out and explain it helped them too.