Using ChatGPT as a therapist

Sharon shares
2 min readMar 8, 2024

A story on Instagram inspired me to try using ChatGPT as a therapist. I am encouraged by my initial conversations with the bot.

I know that using a bot is not a recommended substitution for a human therapist, but this alternative, having all available information summarised and presented to me in seconds, is acceptable to me.

My initial prompt and subsequent input to ChatGPT have been quite long, but I want it to return useful information.

My initial prompt to ChatGPT was:
You are a mental health professional with many years of…

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Sharon shares

50-something life writer — writing about living, learning, ageing & my minimal-ish tendencies. Lots of life experience to share #wanderer #ponderer