Anon01/22/26, 14:28No.11460651
LLMs aren't smart nor trained, but they are up to date and good at answering "What's wrong with me" if you phrase it intelligently or from enough angles. This is how I eventually found psych literature that actually identified what seemed to be much more accurate terms than "treatment resistant depression", which it wasn't.The back and forth of discussion (even with a glorified chatbot) is also stabilizing and literally helps you not abandon the topic, because you need to spell it out which forces you to actually think things through.Having an actual, even unprofessional diagnosis enables you to look for a psychiatrist that will actually match your needs. Going blind with the first ones you find is what you'll do the first time and is likely to put you off.Finally, emotional neglect and isolation are legitimately as or more damaging than physical abuse, so you're likely to legitimately need help because your brains made accurate, facts-based judgements on your situation that morphed into dissociation, paralysis, and learned helplessness.You can try complex trauma for theory (Bessel, Peter Levine) then/or Body (polyvagal, sensorimotor theory) or Psych based approaches (Schema theory/therapy, IFS, CFT), they'll all basically say the same thing: your brain is fucking you over because that's what your environment taught it.
