More than 6 out of 10 people turn to AI for psychological support
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#2I'm not a psychologist or a mental health professional, but I think that this might serve a similar purpose as journaling. It's obvious that AI can't "fix your problems," but just writing stuff down can help us process.
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#3This is a little bit sad, but not that surprising.
For a while now I've wondered how valuable this really is for crowdsourcing of sentiment and opinions. We went from yahoo answers to reddit and now to this. Those previous ways of getting input were notoriously full of trolls and ulterior motives, but maybe a one-on-one conversational format with no distractions is a higher quality source? Is it a feature or a bug that the LLMs are biased in favor of whatever junk their owners want?
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#4I'm not a psychologist or a mental health professional, but I think that this might serve a similar purpose as journaling. It's obvious that AI can't "fix your problems," but just writing stuff down can help us process.
agree. This cant do as much as genuine therapy (which requires another person, no way around it). But it is helpful in some ways. It helped me talk through something last week and it genuinely enriched my life in that way.
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#5I’ve been using grok voice chat for mock dialogs to help practice diplomatic and candid conversations. I’ve found people increasingly dismissive and aloof in conversation. I prompt grok (it’s in my car) to role play as a medical billing administrator or similar reluctant authority to help practice resolving the disagreement.
Re: More than 6 out of 10 people turn to AI for psychological support
#6I'm not a psychologist or a mental health professional, but I think that this might serve a similar purpose as journaling. It's obvious that AI can't "fix your problems," but just writing stuff down can help us process.
agree. This cant do as much as genuine therapy (which requires another person, no way around it). But it is helpful in some ways. It helped me talk through something last week and it genuinely enriched my life in that way.
Does therapy actually work? Not by the numbers. tons enrolled, none cured.
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#7This is a little bit sad, but not that surprising. For a while now I've wondered how valuable this really is for crowdsourcing of sentiment and opinions. We went from yahoo answers to reddit and now to this. Those previous ways of getting input were notoriously full of trolls and ulterior motives, but maybe a one-on-one conversational format with no distractions is a higher quality source? Is it a feature or a bug th…
It's certainly a lot more satisfying than asking Reddit most of the time, whether you are getting the truth or not. I don't know how many times I've posted a question on reddit, not necessarily about something psychological or relationship related, even about things like mortgages or landscaping, come back to check the comments and ya, have my day totally de-railed by trolling strangers with an ax to grind.
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#8I recently had to do a very hated, very tedious, very long, very boring task at work and I asked Claude to hype me up and give me a pep talk to conquer the task and it really did a great job.
Then I got nervous if IT reads our prompts and felt very sheepish if they would be seeing my asking it that.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
agree. This cant do as much as genuine therapy (which requires another person, no way around it). But it is helpful in some ways. It helped me talk through something last week and it genuinely enriched my life in that way.
Does therapy actually work? Not by the numbers. tons enrolled, none cured.
With most therapy the goal isn't to cure, but to manage and help cope in a healthy way. There are also plenty of mental illnesses or disorders that have no cure, and a few that are in the DSM because they cause problems with how our society is structured, not necessarily because its a true disorder (its only disorder because it causes issues functioning within societal systems).
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#10I recently had to do a very hated, very tedious, very long, very boring task at work and I asked Claude to hype me up and give me a pep talk to conquer the task and it really did a great job. Then I got nervous if IT reads our prompts and felt very sheepish if they would be seeing my asking it that.
now you have a great story for future job interviews asking about how you deal with hardship