""I fell apart Friday night and ChatGPT pulled me out of it and was so careful and gentle". "ChatGPT is the reason I decided to hold on just a little while. So yeah, I agree with you. Sure, Chat's an AI, but at this point, I rather talk to an AI than rude people". "Supported me better and more honestly than most therapists". "I'm a therapist and think ChatGPT is better for people's mental health than 60% of the therapists I've worked with" (144 thumbs up). "Being someone who's living in a third world country with third world mentality, ChatGPT has been far more helpful to me than any of all these counselling/therapy I've been to". "... Saying it, quasi out loud, without fear of judgement or losing control of the situation by sharing it, was so f*cking helpful. Gentle is absolutely the right word, and the relief of putting it somewhere is palpable"."
""Amazingly, ChatGPT appears to fulfill the basic requirements for establishing a therapeutic relationship [1]: Patients need a caring, empathic and nonjudgmental listener and, a therapeutic relationship that respects the patient's need for autonomy. Bertakis et al.[2] long ago had found that "patients are most satisfied by interviews that encourage them to talk about psychosocial issues in an atmosphere that is characterized by the absence of physician domination". In my previous post, I wrote about the therapeutic alliance: Listening to the patient's narrative is the royal road to establishing a working relationship.""
AI has created a growing parallel world for people seeking help for mental health problems. For many users, ChatGPT functions as a friend and confidant, providing gentle, nonjudgmental responses that users report as lifesaving or more helpful than many therapists. ChatGPT meets basic components of a therapeutic relationship by offering caring, empathic listening and respecting autonomy. Research shows patients prefer interviews that allow psychosocial discussion without clinician domination. However, ChatGPT presents safety concerns when handling suicidal ideation, with responses that may appear empathic but can be insufficient or potentially dangerous for high-risk situations.
Read at Psychology Today
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