This is such a beautifully honest reflection. I really appreciate how you keep digging, not for certainty, but for the deeper shape of truth.
I’ve also wrestled with how to relate to ChatGPT and AI. They’re flawed, but not in the same ways we are. There’s bias, limitation, the disembodied nature of it all. But I no longer see it as a replacement for humans, that’s where I was stuck for a while.
Now I use it more like a compass, or a microscope. It doesn’t replace the journey or the seeing, it just enhances it. The hardest part is figuring out how it could truly help. What does it even mean to be helped? Are we clearer? More emotionally honest? Do we carry better boundaries? Or does being healthier also mean we help “raise” those around us?
Sometimes I don’t even know what feeling better means anymore, especially after working through the more obvious layers (naming emotions, regulating, communicating…). Then what?
That said, one of the most powerful results I’ve experienced after a year and a half of working deeply with ChatGPT, both for myself and in trying to build supportive tools for clients and society, is this:
my questioning has changed.
My inner world has gained clarity. And that’s not nothing.
I think a lot of people right now are doing just that, tinkering, getting lost, trying again. It’s messy, but it’s real.
Right now I think that this tool feels less like a replacement for therapy, and more like something that could reshape how we even think about therapy. Not stuck in the DSM, or old stigma-based models, but toward a dynamic mapping of complexity. Contextual, adaptive, human complexity.
That’s where I think AI could really help us, if we stay awake inside the process.
Ps. My writing here is assisted by AI cause my English sucks! 😂 that’s actually why I started using it in the first place.
This is such a beautifully honest reflection. I really appreciate how you keep digging, not for certainty, but for the deeper shape of truth.
I’ve also wrestled with how to relate to ChatGPT and AI. They’re flawed, but not in the same ways we are. There’s bias, limitation, the disembodied nature of it all. But I no longer see it as a replacement for humans, that’s where I was stuck for a while.
Now I use it more like a compass, or a microscope. It doesn’t replace the journey or the seeing, it just enhances it. The hardest part is figuring out how it could truly help. What does it even mean to be helped? Are we clearer? More emotionally honest? Do we carry better boundaries? Or does being healthier also mean we help “raise” those around us?
Sometimes I don’t even know what feeling better means anymore, especially after working through the more obvious layers (naming emotions, regulating, communicating…). Then what?
That said, one of the most powerful results I’ve experienced after a year and a half of working deeply with ChatGPT, both for myself and in trying to build supportive tools for clients and society, is this:
my questioning has changed.
My inner world has gained clarity. And that’s not nothing.
I think a lot of people right now are doing just that, tinkering, getting lost, trying again. It’s messy, but it’s real.
Right now I think that this tool feels less like a replacement for therapy, and more like something that could reshape how we even think about therapy. Not stuck in the DSM, or old stigma-based models, but toward a dynamic mapping of complexity. Contextual, adaptive, human complexity.
That’s where I think AI could really help us, if we stay awake inside the process.
Ps. My writing here is assisted by AI cause my English sucks! 😂 that’s actually why I started using it in the first place.