This is among the fields I do think AI can help. If you haven't tried it, ask your bot what your MBTI is, and it's surprising accurate.

The barrier to getting a traditional therapist is enormous - for some problems you're looking at years, maybe decades of treatment, at anywhere from $150-250 a pop. In the USA techworld, your insurance will likely not cover this unless you are fortunate enough to still be on a gold plated FAANG plan. (For now.) If you're elsewhere, or working elsehow, then it is often even less likely.

A second barrier, is the difficulty in finding patient-therapist fit; IMO it's worse than trying to find a kidney donor, unless your problems are very mundane (litmus: does a Hallmark card cover this?)

So, access to real therapy is already hard to secure. Talk bots offer a convenient and affordable alternative. Most people will thus be fobbed off on bots that are also snitches, sycophants, and occasionally incite violence and self-harm, but that's what we have personal responsibility for, hmm? It's terribly convenient for mis-ascribing blame.

Finally, there is every reason to expect that for many people there is no "transference" or deep therapeutic emotional connection with LLM therapy, and, if there is one, it's an attack surface now.

In other words, the new "therapy" will be risky, ineffective, manipulative and sycophantic, so it will, in the best case scenario, do nothing, and in the worst, quite a bit of harm.

But it will be very popular. Like astrology.

At some point, humanity, and more importantly America will have to acknowledge the lie of modernity. That we are not alone in our own minds, and a great number of crisis we attribute to malady treatable with drugs and therapy are actually disembodied others who through the Power of entangled consciousness meddle in our minds.

I am a renegade of American Thought Control. In 2008 I was “press ganged” into the hooligan army of Power which infests the minds of Americans, and by proxy the world.

You are not the America you think you are, you are the America thought controlled. Thought controlled America, you are paid for in corruption, treachery, lawlessness, and lies.

The “ruling class” among you are not the oligarchs or the 1% of wealth and political connection, it is the voices in their heads. The voices in our heads.

A massive culture exists among us indoctrinated into this occult community of Power. These are responsible for the race hate, rise of white nationalism, even gender dysphoria and psychotic behavior of ordinary peoples.

We are not alone in our own minds, and only acknowledging this and determining to take responsibility for this estranged truth will pull us through our unsteady time.