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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My therapist changed my life. But that's because I knew exactly what my problem was and I have great judgment and was able to find (after a lot of effort) a therapist who I knew was likely to be able to help me.

Most therapists are useless, so unless you are self aware and have generally have good judgment, you will be wasting your money going to therapy. The other option is if you are loaded and can afford an out of network psychotherapist who will charge $400 an hour. If you do not feel like you have any of these three things, you are much better off getting a house cleaner and starting to exercise and talking to Claude (ask for recommendations for books that by renowned psychotherapists).[/quote]

Good god people, STOP recommending AI chat bots to people in place of therapy. They are not therapists. They have actively harmed people using their products as therapy. Use better help or some telehealth service your insurance provides if you’re looking for cheap and easy therapy.[/quote]

DP. The PP didn't recommend using AI for therapy, she recommended asking AI to recommend books by renowned psychotherapists. That is something an AI chatbot would be good at, and could also probably summarize the contents and key takeaways, as well as any criticism of those takeaways.

Most therapists are not very good. The PP is right that in order to get a good therapist you either need a lot of money for someone who doesn't take insurance and is selective about clients, or the time/energy/savvy to screen every in-network therapist you can access to find one who actually fits your therapeutic needs (which means understanding your therapeutic needs as well as a good, skilled therapist would, which is not common). Using whatever telehelath service your insurance provides maybe cheap but is not easy -- that is a good way to get a totally useless therapy who is as likely to make things worse as make them better. Yes, people wh have realized on AI chatbots for therapy have in a couple very rare occasions, committed suicide. Guess how many times that's happened with people under the care of a licenses therapist? I'll give you a hint: it's more than a few.[/quote]

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