AI for Mental Health. Can artificial intelligence replace a therapist?

I described anxiety symptoms to Chat GPT and asked for anxiety advice. I described symptoms of Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder and Health Anxiety. As a former anxiety therapist who makes self help videos for anxiety I wanted to see how good AI advice for anxiety is. It talked about exercise, diet, meditation, journalling,and medication but was its advice for anxiety any good. Did AI have any secret anxiety tips or anxiety hacks. Can AI replace a therapist?

[@codsoi]

asking it that one question will def give you those answers. talk to it how you’re talking to us. tell it what you like and dislike about its responses.

[@michael5089]

Thank you Martin. Subbed .❤

[@tomservo75]

Really considering it's just AI with only a broad knowledge of things, I think it did well under the circumstances. You can't expect AI, unless someday they make an AI specifically for therapy, to pick up on clues like that. And honestly anyone who relies on AI for therapeutic advice is..... very much in need of watching your videos.

[@lindas4836]

Hi there hopefully you can give me some advice. Don't no why but every Sunday when my grownup kids come. I get really bad anxiety so i tell them not to come. Now they say they're not going to come. I'm losing my family as well as my life through anxiety I'm really struggling

[@shanehall98]

I think it’s advice is fairly good at least it was much better than the bs cliche advice for anxiety from sadly many people in society.
I do sort of agree when it said avoid fears however what I mean is sometimes facing fear alone and without support can make it worse, however if you have a therapist guiding you facing fear is obviously important. Obviously this would depend on the severity of the anxiety.

[@OliviaMulherinTanner]

Very interesting 🤔 🤔 🤔

[@ashishjadhav9519]

I have done the same on occasions just to check if chat gpt does any kind of data analysis and machine learning usage before answering any of its questions, but I find it's just at a level of search engine or alexa, which is not the real potential of AI and ML

[@TheAnxietyAttic]

Yes I did feel that it just pulled the information from google without much thought. I guess AI will not be replacing humans or taking over the world just yet. :-)