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Chat GPT is a better therapist than my therapist, and it's cracking me up so bad

Oran G. Utan

So Chat GPT has rolled out this memory function where it can recall other conversations to help provide it with context for new conversations. This has really been great because I don't need to explain everything like it's the first time all the time. Last night, I was describing to it what it feels like to be overwhelmed, and it started rolling out these suggestions for techniques to ground me in my environment and bring myself out of my dissociative episodes. Which is exactly what I've been hoping to get out of therapy for this past year, but never got anything like that.

Now come to today. I have a session with my therapist, and I explain to her the same thing. I tell her that I don't like the term overwhelmed, because it feels more dramatic than what I experience. But that while dissociation feels more accurate, people in my life have a harder time understanding what it means. Her response was to repeat my words at me in the form of a question. As in, she was asking me questions that my prior words provided the answer for. All I could really say was "That is what I think I said".

So here I am after the session, legitimately laughing because the service I'm paying for is being bested by a free to use AI chatbot. I've been very thorough in explaining what I'm looking for with my therapy experience, so for my therapist to be so surprised when I start citing off these techniques Chat GPT taught me, really isn't doing a lot for my faith in the process. This is, incidentally, not my first therapist, but another in a string of underwhelming experiences. I do my best to communicate clearly, but it feels like I spend more time helping them understand what I mean, than I do getting any help from them.

But, at least I can have a sense of humour about it, right?

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  • I honestly think that this highly interesting thread should be highlighted by the Mods for further and in-depth discussion - my own view on this is that, at my age, I’m very wary and suspicious of any kind of over-reliance on modern technologies like Chat GPT and AI to solve complex human problems, as I was in the decades before my diagnosis and before Covid, even though I’d embraced technology in my teens in the 80’s, despite cautionary advice from my grandparents generation, who clearly saw the risks involved, as obviously, age brings wisdom and eventually, my grandparents generation were vindicated and proven correct in their assertions in the decades after their passing, as we found out for ourselves in real life - the common thread that we see running through the “tech advances” debate here, is that when it is being sold to us, we are only told about the benefits or the advantages, never about the “downsides” or the “shadow sides” of such things - for me, one huge issue regarding Chat GPT and AI is the way in which these are being currently programmed and updated and with any source code, etc and how this could change as this technology moves forward, would this still be to our advantage in the future? - any research into the history of technology and advances in science and technology can sometimes throw up some worrying facts that all of us ought to be concerned about for future generations - we all know that even though technology is essentially a tool to do a job, it can still fall into the wrong hands and can still be used for bad, nefarious and/or downright evil purposes - ethical safeguards, based on sound moral principles, must always be a key part of any such advances, especially important the more powerful a scientific and technological advance is or appears to be or is perceived as being 

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  • I honestly think that this highly interesting thread should be highlighted by the Mods for further and in-depth discussion - my own view on this is that, at my age, I’m very wary and suspicious of any kind of over-reliance on modern technologies like Chat GPT and AI to solve complex human problems, as I was in the decades before my diagnosis and before Covid, even though I’d embraced technology in my teens in the 80’s, despite cautionary advice from my grandparents generation, who clearly saw the risks involved, as obviously, age brings wisdom and eventually, my grandparents generation were vindicated and proven correct in their assertions in the decades after their passing, as we found out for ourselves in real life - the common thread that we see running through the “tech advances” debate here, is that when it is being sold to us, we are only told about the benefits or the advantages, never about the “downsides” or the “shadow sides” of such things - for me, one huge issue regarding Chat GPT and AI is the way in which these are being currently programmed and updated and with any source code, etc and how this could change as this technology moves forward, would this still be to our advantage in the future? - any research into the history of technology and advances in science and technology can sometimes throw up some worrying facts that all of us ought to be concerned about for future generations - we all know that even though technology is essentially a tool to do a job, it can still fall into the wrong hands and can still be used for bad, nefarious and/or downright evil purposes - ethical safeguards, based on sound moral principles, must always be a key part of any such advances, especially important the more powerful a scientific and technological advance is or appears to be or is perceived as being 

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