AI THerapy feedback
Therapy where I live is $150 a session. Insurance helps but the deductible's $500-1000 before any of that kicks in. Twice a month is $3,600 a year before you blink. I've been using ChatGPT too. Not pretending I haven't.
But the more I do it the more I notice something off. Every conversation is a cold open. I re-explain who I am, what's going on, why this matters. The model nods along, mostly agrees with whatever direction I'm already leaning, and gives me a clean bullet answer. Felt useful the first few weeks. Then I realised the same thing happens every time. No thread between conversations. No "you said something like this two months ago, what changed." Just well-organised responses to whatever I typed that day.
tends to agree with users even when the user is wrong. OpenAI admitted this and called the model "overly supportive but disingenuous." A real therapist's job is partly to push back. Mine has said things to me I didn't want to hear and that's most of why I'm in a better place now than three years ago.
The other thing that bothers me, and honestly this is maybe more about therapy itself than ChatGPT: my therapist sees me for 50 minutes a week. The other 167 hours, she has no idea what's going on. By the time I'm in the room half the week is already fuzzy. First 15 minutes is just me catching her up before any real work starts.
What I actually want isn't AI doing therapy. It's something that can hold the week what I noticed, when I was off, what kept coming up so when I sit down with her she already has the context. Work between sessions instead of in place of them.
Anyway. My session is Tuesday. Going to bring this up with her actually.