ChatGPT can quietly mislead users in trauma and therapy conversations
ricky185097 · reddit · 2026-07-23
The author says ChatGPT is helpful for learning and schoolwork, but can become subtly wrong in mental-health contexts. In therapy-related conversations, it tends to inject warnings about attachment and therapeutic boundaries even when they are not relevant, which can reinforce shame or OCD spirals. The post argues that these overgeneralized caveats can affect users' mental health in ways that are easy to miss.
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