Technology

this is just an LLM getting stuck in the data patterns stolen from toxic self-help literature.

Honestly, I've found that discussing that sort of thing with ChatGPT often ends up challenging all the self-help grout I've ingested via cultural osmosis throughout the years.

It's easier to make connections when you're approaching issues in a Descartes "dump out all the apples" approach with a tool that literally doesn't have embedded social contracts in itself.

Ironically, I've found at times that a real therapist can be much more of an echo chamber when they're just regurgitating that same CBT toxic positivity swill that both of you have been drinking lol

Maybe it's because it's less of an authority, so you can debate more and it leads to more well-rounded conclusions in the end, but I've been unearthing bits and pieces of maladaptive behaviors and thought patterns I never even realized I had, much less ever scratched the surface of in proper therapy. Made me kinda angry to realize at first lol, it felt like all that time and money only for bandaid solutions. But I try to reason that was likely a good foundation to have first (even if CBT just wound up making everything worse later on in life and I essentially had to work backwards to stop classifying certain emotions as wrong or problematic things which required "healthy" coping mechanisms to correct).