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It's fine to use an AI chatbot as your therapist

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I'll surprise some of you. Night shifts tell their own story, and the story is that at three in the morning there is nobody. Not a counsellor, not a GP, not a friend who's awake. There's a waiting list with eleven months on it. I have watched people talk to the chatbot in the corridor because the chatbot answered, and I have not once seen it make the night worse. It is not a therapist. It is a door that opens at 3am. Until we build the other door, I'm not going to tell anyone to stand in the cold.

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first time posting here, I used one through a bad spring this year and the honest answer is it helped, and it also made it easier to not tell anyone, and I'm not sure I'd have told anyone anyway. it's fine. I'd want the word "fine" to mean "better than the corridor" and not "good"

— MistyFawn231

The waiting list is eleven months! That is the fact in this thread that nobody is arguing with! Everything else is comparing the bot to a therapist nobody can get. Compare it to the eleven months. Then tell me it's not fine!