Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>This tells us a lot about how the lives of an increasing number of human beings are so empty of social contact with other human beings that they need to enter into false relationships with chatbots governed by neural networks and statistical probabilities...</p><p>"More and more of us are using LLMs to find purpose and improve ourselves.</p><p>Therapy and Companionship is now the #1 use case. This use case refers to two distinct but related use cases. Therapy involves structured support and guidance to process psychological challenges, while companionship encompasses ongoing social and emotional connection, sometimes with a romantic dimension. I grouped these together last year and this year because both fulfill a fundamental human need for emotional connection and support.</p><p>Many posters talked about how therapy with an AI model was helping them process grief or trauma. Three advantages to AI-based therapy came across clearly: It’s available 24/7, it’s relatively inexpensive (even free to use in some cases), and it comes without the prospect of judgment from another human being. The AI-as-therapy phenomenon has also been noticed in China. And although the debate about the full potential of computerized therapy is ongoing, recent research offers a reassuring perspective—that AI-delivered therapeutic interventions have reached a level of sophistication such that they’re indistinguishable from human-written therapeutic responses.</p><p>A growing number of professional services are now being partially delivered by generative AI—from therapy and medical advice to legal counsel, tax guidance, and software development."</p><p><a href="https://hbr.org/2025/04/how-people-are-really-using-gen-ai-in-2025?ab=HP-hero-latest-2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hbr.org/2025/04/how-people-are</span><span class="invisible">-really-using-gen-ai-in-2025?ab=HP-hero-latest-2</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chatbots</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Therapy</span></a></p>
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Emma and Emily 🏳️⚧️<p>I have to admit I thought long and hard about including the 1st photo in this post as I look and felt so vulnerable but then I realised that I should because that’s the whole point. <br>Vulnerable is exactly how I’m feeling and have been feeling for a good week and that feeling will be high up there until after my birthday on the 23rd of this month. Now that I’m exploring my feelings instead of ignoring them, I’m aware that I feel this way every year. My birthday has always been tied up with feelings of rejection, pain and loss. I can honestly say I haven’t had many birthdays at all that have been joyful but those years that were I hold very dear because they are so rare. <br>I have decided to pick through all of the pain so that I can finally find peace, hopefully. As birthdays are supposed to be celebrations (so I’m told) I would like for this one to be the last painful one. <br>This morning I found a bubble blower and I sat feeling extremely vulnerable and I blew bubbles. I connected with my always sad and confused inner child and let her feel peace. The chirping of the birds, the sun on her skin, the beauty of the bubbles in the sunshine and that magical popping sound. No pressure, no anything, just being exactly in the moment of beauty and wonder. I think allowing my inner child out is key to healing, she went through so much and deserves to feel joy, laughter and freedom to be her without judgement. I say without judgement because it’s something I’ve always done since I was a child and it’s stifled me as an adult. <br>I have a week or so to figure out how but I’m going to try and let this birthday be one for my inner child, to see if I can help us to heal. <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalhealth</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/mentalhealthawareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalhealthawareness</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/mentalhealthjourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalhealthjourney</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/healing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healing</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/healingfromtrauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healingfromtrauma</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/healingisaprocess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healingisaprocess</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/innerchild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>innerchild</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/innerchildtherapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>innerchildtherapy</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therapy</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/findingjoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>findingjoy</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/findingpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>findingpeace</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/workinprogress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workinprogress</span></a></p>
Dave Rahardja<p>I’ve just heard someone tell me that their therapist literally uses ChatGPT to help them give clients life recommendations. Not even web search, not books, not studies. ChatGPT.</p><p>What the actual fuck is happening.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therapy</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/therapist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therapist</span></a></p>
Shady Jon<p>Telehealth sessions with clients who have new puppies are the best kind of telehealth sessions.</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/telehealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>telehealth</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therapy</span></a></p>
Mx Verda<p>1. You and yourself form your being. But by that, what am I meaning? <br>Dualism is moot, no schism is true, <br>and identity's not all it's seeming. </p><p>2. Post-cholecystectomy [ko le sis tek toe mee]. This back pain will be the death of me. <br>"Right shoulder pain" became "mild strain"? <br>Docs ask how they're "enemy". </p><p>3. Counselling Level 3 coursework at this point feels like mild torture. <br>How can I stand 'Review Action Plan' <br>when my options send me to torpor? </p><p>4. UPR, ethics, and feel what you notice (for therapy, real). <br>Set forth Carl Rogers, Person-Centred's starter. <br>Humanistic counsell -- his whole deal. </p><p>5. I say Integrative Therapy<br>mixes together all three <br>approaches today taught in the UK: <br>Per-Centered, PsyDynamic, CBT. </p><p>6. Level 4 is the min you need right now to practise therapy.<br>You can still joke out quite a belter, as long as your role stays "helper".<br>One more word for client: "helpee". </p><p>7. For me, relearning MMA (medical-wise) has stayed "nay". <br>I have no energy, nor makeup on peak. <br>Who knows? Maybe... one day... </p><p>8. Just like spoiling a plot, repeat triggerers get blocked.<br>You ought aim not cause harm, if wish you to spare alarm. <br>Or... had we forgot? </p><p>9. Through others do we know ourself? <br>With lovers, we learn what we're dealt. <br>Your bodymind chooses which traits it loses, <br>plus those for which you far delve. </p><p>10. Sometimes you can guess your traumas. Meds' side effects include nausea.<br>Bothered ye to get yourselves through.<br>I never unlocked Bozja. </p><p>11. You can not make me start work. Although I feel like a jerk. <br>My tutor awaits the far-past-due date. <br>On this seat, I stay and I lurk. </p><p>12. Nonbinary goes known. Get up here, come, have a go. <br>"Are you masculine?" <br>"Are you feminine?" <br>Robot, femboy, and crone! </p><p>13. Gender is what your brain be, while expression is acting, you see. <br>Attraction to parts, updates and larks.<br>Oh no, sexuality! </p><p>14. Asexuals may be or not queer. <br>All aces stay welcome here. <br>Agender folk face too many jokes. <br>Aromantics write slash fics or jeer. </p><p>15. It's okay to ask for help. Whether or not you feel well. <br>While systems are limited, your needs stay existent. <br>We need to thunderclap-yell. </p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/OortArtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OortArtCloud</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/limerick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>limerick</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/stanza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stanza</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/rhyme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rhyme</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/homework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homework</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/counselling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>counselling</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ArtTherapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtTherapy</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/self" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>self</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/SelfTherapising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfTherapising</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therapy</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theory</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a></p>
Nick Walker<p>Here's the official info on the new Bachelor of Science program in Psychedelic Studies that I helped to create (and will be teaching in) at California Institute of Integral Studies.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/psychedelics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychedelics</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/cognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cognition</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therapy</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mind</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/psychedelicresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychedelicresearch</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.ciis.edu/academics/continuing-undergraduate-programs/bachelor-science-psychedelic-studies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ciis.edu/academics/continuing-</span><span class="invisible">undergraduate-programs/bachelor-science-psychedelic-studies</span></a></p>
PaulaToThePeople<p>I just rediscovered two old posts/threads of mine, that explain pretty well, why I want to go into pedagogy now (I didn't know it back then - too busy working on my depression and hating school):</p><p>Content warning: Childhood trauma</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@PaulaToThePeople/111490472007434009" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">climatejustice.social/@PaulaTo</span><span class="invisible">ThePeople/111490472007434009</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@PaulaToThePeople/111187258270534141" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">climatejustice.social/@PaulaTo</span><span class="invisible">ThePeople/111187258270534141</span></a></p><p>I want to protect children.<br>I want to provide them a save environment to thrive and talk about their troubles. <br>In a perfect school system kids would learn mental hygiene and get therapy before they learn integrals and the uncritical history of wars and power abuse. That would prevent so much domestic abuse, because it would be caught early.<br>And teaching kids emotional and social competence before teaching them applied capitalism will prevent abuse, division, exploitation and hate in the future.</p><p>I want to teach children to be happier than me, less abusive than my stepdad, more empathetic than my mom and more protective of future generations than my teachers were.</p><p>That's why I'm studying animal assisted pedagogy and will start studying social pedagogy, trauma pedagogy and environmental pedagogy this fall.</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/mh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mh</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/trauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trauma</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/pedagogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pedagogy</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/school" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>school</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SaveSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveSpace</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/MentalHygiene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHygiene</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therapy</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DomesticViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DomesticViolence</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DomesticAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DomesticAbuse</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/AbusePrevention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbusePrevention</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ViolencePrevention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ViolencePrevention</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/EmotionalIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmotionalIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SocialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/AnimalAssisted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnimalAssisted</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/AnimalAssistedPedagogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnimalAssistedPedagogy</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SocialPedagogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialPedagogy</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/TraumaPedagogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TraumaPedagogy</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SozialP%C3%A4dagogik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SozialPädagogik</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/TraumaP%C3%A4dagogik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TraumaPädagogik</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/FediLZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediLZ</span></a></p>
Ratt 📸If you had told me a year ago that I needed to sing for a <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/DnD?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DnD</a> game, I might have had an <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/anxiety?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anxiety</a> attack on the spot. Last night, I *chose* to sing (badly but whatevs) during what ended up being, IMO, the best session I've not only ever run, but of any I've ever played in.<br>
Also, it was a <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/FPWKK?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FPWKK</a> adventure so I got to totally obliterate the party without feeling bad. 😈<br>
<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Gaming?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaming</a> is <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/therapy?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#therapy</a>!<br>
<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/DungeonsAndDragons?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DungeonsAndDragons</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/FasterPurpleWormKillKill?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FasterPurpleWormKillKill</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/MentalHealth?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MentalHealth</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/TTRPG?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TTRPG</a>
ProPublica<p>Utah Ex-Therapist Scott Owen Sentenced to Prison for Sexually Abusing Patients<br>—</p><p>Owen’s 15-year-to-life prison term follows a 2023 investigation by The Salt Lake Tribune and ProPublica that uncovered a range of sex abuse allegations against the ex-therapist, who claimed to be a specialist for struggling gay Latter-day Saints men.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/scott-owen-utah-therapist-sexual-abuse-prison-sentence?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/scott-o</span><span class="invisible">wen-utah-therapist-sexual-abuse-prison-sentence?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Therapy</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abuse</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/LDS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LDS</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crime</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prison</span></a></p>
CITO Greenhouse<p>Exploring the Colorful Tapestry of Mental Health: Science, Philosophy, and Laughter</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MentalHealthMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealthMatters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Psychopharmacology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Psychopharmacology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mindfulness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mindfulness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Therapy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WellBeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WellBeing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MentalHealthAwareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealthAwareness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CognitiveTherapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CognitiveTherapy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HolisticHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HolisticHealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialConstructs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialConstructs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SelfDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LaughterAndLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaughterAndLearning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MentalWellness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalWellness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EmbraceTheJourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmbraceTheJourney</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/W2lCpBKb28Q?feature=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/shorts/W2lCpBKb28Q</span><span class="invisible">?feature=share</span></a></p>
CITO Greenhouse<p>Exploring the Intersection of Mental Health and Philosophy</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Psychology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mindfulness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mindfulness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HolisticHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HolisticHealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SelfDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MentalWellness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalWellness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialConstructs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialConstructs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhilosophicalThought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhilosophicalThought</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Therapy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CognitiveBehavioralTherapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CognitiveBehavioralTherapy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MentalHealthAwareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealthAwareness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WellBeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WellBeing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/WkUKBi_zyyE?feature=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/shorts/WkUKBi_zyyE</span><span class="invisible">?feature=share</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Now consider the chatbot therapist: what are its privacy safeguards? Well, the companies may make some promises about what they will and won't do with the transcripts of your AI sessions, but they are lying. Of course they're lying! AI companies lie about what their technology can do (of course). They lie about what their technologies will do. They lie about money. But most of all, they lie about data.</p><p>There is no subject on which AI companies have been more consistently, flagrantly, grotesquely dishonest than training data. When it comes to getting more data, AI companies will lie, cheat and steal in ways that would seem hacky if you wrote them into fiction, like they were pulp-novel dope fiends:<br>(...)<br>But it's not just people struggling with their mental health who shouldn't be sharing sensitive data with chatbots – it's everyone. All those business applications that AI companies are pushing, the kind where you entrust an AI with your firm's most commercially sensitive data? Are you crazy? These companies will not only leak that data, they'll sell it to your competition. Hell, Microsoft already does this with Office365 analytics:<br>(...)<br>These companies lie all the time about everything, but the thing they lie most about is how they handle sensitive data. It's wild that anyone has to be reminded of this. Letting AI companies handle your sensitive data is like turning arsonists loose in your library with a can of gasoline, a book of matches, and a pinky-promise that this time, they won't set anything on fire."</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/01/doctor-robo-blabbermouth/#fool-me-once-etc-etc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/04/01/doc</span><span class="invisible">tor-robo-blabbermouth/#fool-me-once-etc-etc</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ChatBots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatBots</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DataProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataProtection</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AITraining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AITraining</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Therapy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a></p>
Haderach C. Kwisatch<p>"Most <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therapy</span></a> chatbots are not currently regulated. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has only approved one AI-based mental health app to treat major <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/depression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>depression</span></a> in adults. Without regulations, there's no way to safeguard against misuse, lack of reporting, or inequity in training data or user access.</p><p>"There are so many open questions that haven't been answered or clearly articulated," said Moore. "We're not advocating for this technology to be nixed. We're not saying get rid of AI or therapy bots. We're saying we need to be thoughtful in how we use them, particularly when it comes to a population like children and their mental health care."<br><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250331151256.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedaily.com/releases/2025</span><span class="invisible">/03/250331151256.htm</span></a></p>
mk30<p>i'm really bad at encouraging myself when i'm down, so i'm watching this nice video by tim fletcher on CPTSD and encouragement: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw_F6hz8-fc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=aw_F6hz8-fc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>some quotes:</p><p>"people with complex trauma have not usually experienced this nice, safe, nurturing greenhouse where there's lots of encouragement and warmth and positive stuff."</p><p>"they've lived in homes where words were very hurtful, not uplifting. that's been their norm."</p><p>"in complex trauma, in order to stay safe, your brain is trained to look for danger, to look for negative. ... so you can really get down on yourself and see the negative."</p><p>"another aspect of complex trauma families is often shame-based parenting, where criticism outweighed praise, where you're made to feel you're not good enough, that you're a failure. and that's the constant environment that you grew up in."</p><p>"when you're hurt, there's very little nurture. you're just told to get over it and quit being a suck."</p><p>"you might develop hopes that maybe if i do this, my parents will love me, but then your hopes get dashed over and over again."</p><p>"so you come to this place of hopelessness and helplessness. and that is so discouraging. so complex trauma families breed discouragement."</p><p>"people from complex trauma have an even greater need for encouragement."</p><p><a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/CPTSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPTSD</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therapy</span></a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/recovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recovery</span></a></p>
CITO Greenhouse<p>Unraveling Mental Health: A Journey Through Neuroscience, Community, and Culture</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neuroscience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CommunityCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityCare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CulturalPsychiatry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalPsychiatry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Psychiatry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Psychiatry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MentalHealthMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealthMatters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Therapy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CBT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PsychologicalWellness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PsychologicalWellness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MentalHealthAwareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealthAwareness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Epidemiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Epidemiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BiopsychosocialModel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BiopsychosocialModel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Support" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Support</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Stigma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stigma</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MentalHealthEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealthEducation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wellbeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wellbeing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Connection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Connection</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MentalHealthJourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealthJourney</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/po_Ue8YgFOE?feature=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/shorts/po_Ue8YgFOE</span><span class="invisible">?feature=share</span></a></p>
Alexis Bushnell<p>UK therapists, what training course would you recommend for someone wanting to become a self employed therapist?</p><p>I'd prefer to take psychology & counselling (<a href="https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/psychology/degrees/bsc-psychology-with-counselling-q84" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">open.ac.uk/courses/psychology/</span><span class="invisible">degrees/bsc-psychology-with-counselling-q84</span></a>) but that doesn't qualify me.</p><p>The counselling only degree (<a href="https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/counselling/degrees/bsc-counselling-r86" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">open.ac.uk/courses/counselling</span><span class="invisible">/degrees/bsc-counselling-r86</span></a>) seems to mean I'd be qualified.</p><p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Therapy</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Career" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Career</span></a></p>
ProPublica<p>New Utah Law Seeks to Crack Down on Life Coaches Offering Therapy Without a License<br>—</p><p>Some therapists who lose their licenses transition to the unregulated life coaching industry, an investigation by The Salt Lake Tribune and ProPublica found. A new law makes it clear that only licensed therapists can provide mental health treatment.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-life-coaches-mental-health-therapy-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/utah-li</span><span class="invisible">fe-coaches-mental-health-therapy-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/LifeCoach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LifeCoach</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Therapy</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>The Mental app was co-founded by the CTO of Calm, and is niched down into men’s <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalhealth</span></a>, specifically.</p><p>Gentlemen, don’t knock <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/coldshowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coldshowers</span></a> and AI <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therapy</span></a> until you try it.<br><a href="https://www.getmental.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">getmental.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
N-gated Hacker News<p>📝💔 Oh, the sheer <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>romance</span></a> of spreadsheets—because nothing says "I love you" like wrestling with comma placement while your eyes bleed from staring at mismatched rows. GitHub's love letter to CSV: a tale of passion, punctuation, and why <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> needs <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therapy</span></a>. 😂💾<br><a href="https://github.com/medialab/xan/blob/master/docs/LOVE_LETTER.md" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/medialab/xan/blob/m</span><span class="invisible">aster/docs/LOVE_LETTER.md</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spreadsheets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spreadsheets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CSV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSV</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GitHub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>
zeldman<p>Whether you’re new to journaling or looking to refresh your practice, find inspiration and practical tips for making journaling work for you.</p><p>Filippo Di Trapani: My unexpected journey with journaling<br><a href="https://automattic.design/2025/03/25/my-unexpected-journey-with-journaling/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">automattic.design/2025/03/25/m</span><span class="invisible">y-unexpected-journey-with-journaling/</span></a> <br><a href="https://front-end.social/tags/creativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creativity</span></a> <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/journaling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journaling</span></a> <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therapy</span></a></p>
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