this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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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.
I just don’t agree that these are good analogies.
Why? If they are bad analogies, there must be a reason for that to be the case.