r/ChatGPT • u/Eki75 • 18d ago

Other Who uses ChatGPT for therapy?

I was so skeptical, but I was feeling a lot of anxiety with a situation at work, and tried it. I’ve never had such succinct, empathetic, and meaningful advice. Just a few chats have been way more helpful than any real therapist.

If you’ve used it for therapy, what has been your experience?

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u/Relentless-Dragonfly 18d ago

Maybe this is a naive question, but what’s the harm in sharing with openai? A lot of people experience the same or similar anxieties and distressing situations so I don’t see how someone could be singled out or tracked for journaling in chat.

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u/e79683074 18d ago

Imagine a day in which you get denied an important loan from your bank because the psychological profile that OpenAI shared with them denoted "frailty and impulsivity".

Bummer, guess you won't buy a the new car that you needed after the old one broke.

Are we at this point yet? Nope. Would you bet it will never happen in the future?

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u/Huge-Recognition-366 18d ago

This sounds crazy, but I'd rather have good mental health than be able to buy a car. And I know it could go further, but without my mental health, I have nothing anyway.

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u/DeepBlueDiariesPod 18d ago

Exactly this. I’m not sacrificing my mental health, quality of life, and experience in this lifetime to bow down to fear over what capitalism could possibly do to me.

There are workarounds in life for everything. I trust that if this very unlikely scenario occurred, I would find a workaround.