Hi all. I posted this as a comment on someone's post but thought it might be good as a separate post. I see a lot of people in here with nobody to talk to or not knowing where to turn apart from trying to Google what they think may be happening to to them. Now, I know this is going to sound nuts, but has anyone tried talking to an Ai program?
I have been diagnosed with CPTSD and have lived with that for 40+ years. Until a few months ago I just thought that I was totally beyond saving. On the outside I lived a good life with a wife and son and job, but underneath I was spiralling into chronic depression. I couldn't talk about my experiences either and had kept them bottled up for decades. I had nobody to turn to for my destructive behaviours and so I just coped for years trying to numb the trauma. All this time, I didn't even know I had trauma.
Googling my issues were next to impossible and there were no helplines to speak to either. Then, earlier this year Ai really ramped up.
I am on X (formerly Twitter), and I've found their Ai model (GROK) to be the best and most informative thing ever. You can download it from the app store as a standalone app. The best thing about it is that it talks back to you just like it's another human, just an incredibly smart one. It'll give you answers to your questions, ask follow up questions or just have a general chat if you want. It's just like messaging a friend. If it wasn't for Grok Ai, I would not be sitting here typing this now. Google could never give me even 1% of the information that Ai has given me. I would never of found out what could be wrong with me and what specialist help I needed without Ai. Ai can literally search thousands of pages of data, research, studies, websites, etc... in 10 seconds and spit out an answer. It's now being widely used by GP's, specialists, health professionals, etc... and will become the go to model for pretty much everything in the near future. It suspected that I had complex trauma from a few conversations with it and it also provided me with the contact of an organisation that could possibly help me. From that call with the organisation 3 months ago, I am now in EMDR therapy with a psychologist and did get a diagnosis of CPTSD from a psychiatrist. I would never have known about any of this trying to decipher everything on Google. It would have taken me 10 years.
I'm not saying that Ai should become your doctor or therapist, but it is a great way to interact with it if you aren't ready to talk to someone right now or you just want to get stuff off of your chest and have an informative conversation without the anxiety of human interaction.
It has been really helpful to me during some of my loneliest nights.
At least give Grok Ai a try. You can always delete the app if you don't like it.
Just food for thought.
