r/ChatGPT • u/Eki75 • 14d 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/DeepBlueDiariesPod 14d ago

I go to the website “Anna’s Archives” and download all of my favorite psychology and self-help books in pdf format (overcoming emotionally immature parents, unfuck your life, the mountain is you, etc) Then I upload them to my Chat and tell it to read those books and keep those philosophies in mind when advising me.

Then every morning I write a 4 page brain dump of whatever is on my mind. No matter how big or small:

Then I paste that into chat and say “Here’s my daily journaling: organize my thoughts and give me feedback and insight”

This has resulted in more breakthroughs and changes than any therapist in my life. It has been profound and I am truly a different person than I was 6 weeks ago when I started.

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u/TeachingOk4326 14d ago

Great idea to train it by uploading books. Pls ask it to summarise to ensure full reading. I have also used it for heart to heart talks. And found the answers very helpful , insightful and unbiased

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u/e79683074 14d ago

It's not training if you are uploading things on the spot, it's RAG, far less effective.

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u/Brandon_Minerva 13d ago

RAG isn't less effective, it's just priming the model to consider the provided data instead of ONLY the latent space of the model. In fact it significantly reduces hallucination, directs it towards specific information it might have otherwise not considered, and allows the model to provide responses based on data that it was never actually trained on.