Comment by m-watson
7 days ago
It makes sense people are going to LLMs for this but part of the problem is that a therapist isn't just someone for you to talk to. A huge part of their job is the psychoeducation, support and connection to a human, and the responsibility of the relationship. A good therapist isn't someone who will just sit with you through an anxiety attack, they work to build up your skills to minimize the frequency and improve your individual approach to handling it.
I mean I don't need therapy. I needed someone just pointing me in the right direction. That I had with my therapist, but I needed a lot more of it. And with that AI helped me (in my case).
I think it is not easy to just saying AI is good for therapy or not. It depends very much on the case.
In fact, when I wrote down my notes, I had found old notes that have come to similar conclusions that I did come to now. Though back then it was not enough to piece it all together. AI helped me with that.