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The other day someone told me that their partner used ChatGPT instead of going to therapy.
We’re all so cooked.
The point of contention regarding therapy for me is that I’m literally paying for an impersonal conversation in which I express my deepest insecurities to someone who most likely doesn’t give a shit.
I don’t see how AI fixes that but I also don’t understand why it can’t help if your relationship with your therapist is supposed to be a fundamentally clinical one.
"person I pay to pretend to give a shit about my problems" is such a reductive and unhealthy view of therapy that it should be immediately apparent why therapy has not been helpful and why you're unable to see why an Autocorrect word regurgitation machine wouldn't be helpful.
If you have an accountant, is that a person you pay to pretend to give a shit about your taxes? Is an orthopedic surgeon someone you paid to pretend to give a shit about your broken leg? You should be able to recognize why this would be an unhealthy and unhelpful framing device.
10% odds the problem is that you haven't found the right therapist. 90% odds you're building up mental barriers that are actively preventing you from engaging with the therapeutic model in a beneficial way. Acknowledging this and working to overcome these barriers was life-changing for me and has resulted in an astonishing level of change in not only how effective talk therapy has been, but also in how I feel and think about myself particularly in regards to my mental and physical health.
Yes and yes. I'm hiring them because they perform a service in exchange for money. It's not reasonable to expect them to care on an individual level about my taxes or my broken leg, I just need them to do their job.
You are in fact having someone perform a service in exchange for money. The service is to identify, analyze, and treat a specific, named issue or group of issues which you are facing. But would you walk up to your parent or neighbor and describe either of those professions as someone you paid to pretend to care?
A therapist is supposed to do the same thing: identify, analyze, and treat an issue or issues. So why the fuck would you frame therapy like you're trying to pay someone to pretend to be your friend? Why is it uniquely normalized to describe just this one profession in this way?