I am a mental health professional, and I have lifelong lived experience with mental health struggles, both very good and very bad times. I still work in mental health. I study mental health more than most of my peers, and I am still in graduate school for fun. I still go to professional therapy. I don’t care whom doesnt believe me, its just true. I love my therapists and therapy will always be needed for interpersonal relationship stuff, but AI is exceedingly good at mental health nuances. I don’t know how to fully express the extensive knowledge I only accessed from good prompting that is significantly informed in the mental health wellness pitfalls and caveats. If you are willing to accept that therapy is challenging and that you need to be open-minded because we are so often wrong or misguided, it is amazing the therapeutic advice you can find with the right questions. Of course, it helps that i have so much background in this field, but im frequently astonished at how well context and nuance is explained and conceptualized by state-of-the-art ai systems. The college education system essentially failed me in psychology education at a top school. modern psych education is very wasteful and a gamed system. Most therapists cannot fathom how far i have over intellectualized some ideas. the level of personalization that is possible with ai is uniquely important here… the fact that you can always ask for big picture questions is a game-changer for neurodivergent minds. therapy simply cannot answer enough questions in 53mins once a week. if you know how to approach therapy and mental wellness with a healthy perspective, or if you have been taught it, ai is astonishingly ahead of the times in effectiveness, and im sick of preventing its not. therapy is not meant to hype you up and be your fanboi sycophant. therapy is meant to educate your perspective and reframe your mindset to be more helpful and functional. ai can do that often. submitted by /u/ProfessionalGeek
Originally posted by u/ProfessionalGeek on r/ArtificialInteligence