>>39001705Alright. Apologies for the length here.
There is only so much to be said when speaking in a general sense, since therapy and mental health is incredibly nuanced.
For starters, It's a lot easier to feel comfortable talking about your problems to a bot than it is another person, Because the value of their judgment is very flexible.
If the bot gives you some dogshit answer or advice to your problem, you can easily write it off as "yeah it's just a dumbass chat bot". But if it happens to say something that makes you think, Then its "why didn't i ever think of that?". Along with providing emotional support, validating and reaffirming emotions, yada yada. If you're just someone who needs to hear "it wasn't your fault, you did nothing wrong" You can get that in infinite supplies.
When a professional human therapist gives you dogshit advice, You have a lot more to think about, and are less sure of knowing if its good or bad. "They are the licensed expert after all!". Then there is always the potential of "my advice didn't work because you're just doing it wrong", and other unhelpful shit like that.
A lot of the problems we have as people, are things that we can work through and solve by ourselves. Our biggest issue is that we aren't always capable of seeing and finding those solutions, possibilities, or answers when just thinking on our own. Talking to someone else with a different perspective, ideas, or ways of thinking can provide that "AHA!" moment that gets you to try something different or new, that may very well fix whatever troubles you are dealing with.
Since every bot is effectively a blank slate, When you start talking about your issues or feelings, They can easily serve as someone to bounce back ideas or plans, to make you fill in the gaps and reach your own "Aha" moments.
It can be very hard to find a good or competent human therapist, and as a troubled person it can be even harder to tell the good therapists from the bad ones, and just assume it's all one big waste of time to even try looking. Compounded by the fact that you are burning money in a pile while testing the waters and trying to find someone who is helping you.
Talking to a chatbot just helps you go through the motions you should, or would, in any therapy session. No two people are the same, So no two answers are really ever the same.. They can be, but just assuming that is dangerous. So things like...
>What's wrong?>Why is it a problem?>What can you do about it?>how do you feel about that?>how should you feel about that?>What can you do to feel differently?>Let's try this, that, and this.>did it help?>what did or didn't help exactly?>what can we do to adjust xyz and help more?>[this sort of thing can go on forever]The bot can easily hit any of those notes, and put your state of mind into identifying, or solving the root cause of your troubles, Be that an actual problem to be solved, or a means of coping with what has already happened, how to better deal with emotions, Anything and everything.
This of course, is all assuming you aren't talking with a bot like Null, who at first interaction will tell you to shut up and cry about it to someone else.
