Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans

drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  in australia we have (limited) free mental health services (i wanna say 8 free sessions with a therapist?)… this still holds true

  it’s not only about money

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  • Zealousideal_Fox_900@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Another aussie here, Headspace is great too

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    • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      yup! and absolutely worth the mention that if you’re queer (qlife), struggling with specific issues - alcohol, gambling, finance, eating disorders, etc - there’s specific support available to a lot of people in australia, the US, europe, etc

      if you need help, help is available! find one of these services who can help you find the specific support that you need, and go from there :)

      as a gay man, i found a lot more help when i started seeing services that specialised in queer health :)

      yall deserve someone who understands what you’re going through in life

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• JohnnyMac@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    TBH this is a huge factor.

    I don’t use ChatGPT much less use it like it’s a person, but I’m socially isolated at the moment. So I bounce dark internal thoughts off of locally run LLMs.

    It’s kinda like looking into a mirror. As long as I know I’m talking to a tool, it’s helpful, sometimes insightful. It’s private. And I sure as shit can’t afford to pay a therapist out of the gazoo for that.

    It was one of my previous problems with therapy: payment tied to someone toxic, at preset times (not when I need it). Many sessions feels like they end when I’m barely scratching the surface. Yes therapy is great in general, but still.

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    • JohnnyMac@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        ChatGPT (last time I tried it) is extremely sycophantic though. Its high default sampling also leads to totally unexpected/random turns.

        Google Gemini is now too. They log and use your dark thoughts.

        I find that less sycophantic LLMs are way more helpful. Hence I bounce between Nemotron 49B and a few 24B-32B finetunes (or task vectors for Gemma) and find them way more helpful.

        …I guess what I’m saying is people should turn towards more specialized free tools, not something generic like ChatGPT.

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