AI vs Human Therapists

A therapist isn't 'there for you'.He or she has a daily list if clients, ten mins before they will brush up on someone they doesn't remember since last week. And it's isn't in their financial interest to fix you.And human intelligence and life experience isn't distributed equally, many therapists have passed the training but are not very good.Same way lots of Devs with a degree aren't very good.Llms are not there yet but if keep developing coul

I'd assume both of those categories also make up a large portion of the clients of licensed therapists.Getting a real therapist is challenging. There is (thankfully decreasing) social stigma, a therapist has to be paid, and in many places there just aren't enough of them.I doubt OpenAI is a good therapist. And in many cases a bad therapist can be harmful. However in other cases a bad therapist is much better than no therapist at all. I'm not sure either if OpenAI does more h

My experience for Claude as therapist is - it's consistent better than human therapists i've met (well, maybe i haven't met a good human therapist yet) in terms of usefulness. And i can be completely honest & decide how much i want to share the context.

As far as I can tell, a lot of therapy is just good common-sense advice and a bunch of 'tricks' to get the patient to actually follow it. Basically CBT and "get the patient to think they figured out the solution themselves (develop insight)". Yes, there's some serious cases where more is required and a few (ADHD) where meds are effective; but a lot of the time the patient is just an expert at rejecting helpful advice, often because they insist they're a special case

This is a job for a therapist, not HN.

Your use-case is very different from someone selling you ChatGPT as a therapist and/or telling you that it's a substitute for other interventions

TherapistFinder might want a word

You’re saying that as if AI is a singular thing. It is not.Also, for every nay sayer I encounter now, I’m going to start by asking “Have you ever taken therapy? For how long? Why did you stop? Did it help?”Therapy isn’t a silver bullet. Finding a therapist that works for you takes years of patient trial and error.

I don't think my reply qualifies as a standard.It's born out of my very real frustration at finally getting to a point where I could get therapy only to be continually stymied by multiple emails never responded to, multiple calls never answered or replied, and finally after one appointment for online therapy finally set up being ghosted by the practitioner.I get that therapy is good, and I believe it can be helpful or else I would have never sought it out, but, I am amazed that a

this is great.i came across this post looking for an ai therapist. I'm surprised why there aren't more attempts on this. Therapists are pretty expensive and everyone is going thru some kind of mental health crisis nowadays. With all the tech layoffs happening a lot of people, like me, are looking at cost effective therapy options.What else are you planning on doing to it to improve it?