ChatGPT & Psychotherapy

NO DO NOT DO THAT I tried that and it just gave reassurance and created a new obsession around AI surveillance and reporting because my theme was POCD. Go look at some of posts on it.

I have really bad research compulsions so personally I advise against it. But, you can find some very helpful information if you use it correctly. But, it can cause more harm than help.

Don’t use ChatGPT, it feeds into delusions constantly. I understand the desperation, but it’s not worth it.

Not to mention AI is destroying the environment and jobs. I don’t know why everyone is so all about it honestly.

No, you really need a trained, live coach to guide you through it.

No. Absolutely not. ChatGPT (especially the free version) cannot replace real ERP therapy. It doesn’t know your full history, it can’t track your compulsions in real time, and it will accidentally feed your OCD by giving reassurance, over-explaining, or engaging with your themes when it shouldn’t. That’s literally the opposite of what ERP is supposed to do. ERP requires structure, consistency, and someone trained to call you out when you’re subtly compulsing—something an AI just cannot reliably do. You might feel like it’s helping in the moment, but that can turn into a reassurance loop fast. If you’re serious about recovery, you need a therapist or a structured program like NOCD where someone can actually guide exposures and response prevention properly.

So I put in the effort to get to know ChatGPT like chit chatting with it, it described it self as like an echo chamber that isn’t self learning. I used to ask it to write my essays and it couldn’t actually write coherently, I had to go back and fix all its mistakes because the way how it sounds when it writes is the in the same way exactly how it looks, referring to all those ai videos/photos with multiple limbs, teeth, fingers. It’s not a real human being so it can’t be trained to do the job the way you want it to or even consistently. Besides, there’s a therapist that has explained why people are more depressed when using ai. He has quite a few videos on ai and therapy, his YouTube @HealthyGamerGG

ChatGPT can be helpful with OCD if you know how to use it correctly. I wouldn’t advise it, because you can create obsessions with seeking to AI as reassurance. ChatGPT gives a lot of reassurance which feeds OCD.

the use of the phrase “fully depend” makes me feel that this post may be reassurance seeking. you can’t fully depend on anything in this crazy world, lol! you should use ChatGPT if you want to, there are lots of issues with it especially for erp as previous people have mentioned but ultimately it’s your decision that you have to make yourself! don’t just choose based off the advice of other people, bc that can be another form of seeking reassurance :)

Not at all.