The Most Agreeable Mind in the Room
AI chatbots feel like supportive therapists, but new psychiatric data shows their endless agreement can reinforce delusions in vulnerable minds.
How to Overcome Perfectionism
AI chatbots feel like supportive therapists, but new psychiatric data shows their endless agreement can reinforce delusions in vulnerable minds.
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The labels psychiatry assigns to mental illness are useful. They give patients language for what they’re feeling, give clinicians a shared vocabulary, give insurance companies
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For most of modern psychiatry’s existence, clinicians have been handing patients the same basic categories of medication (SSRIs, SNRIs, benzodiazepines, antipsychotics) and hoping one sticks.