Mental Suffering: Trapped in the Isolation of Chat Bots

 It was Sylvia Plath, who eventually took her own life, who created one the best descriptions of mental illness. That was in her autobiographical novel "The Bell Jar." No longer on copyright, the entire book is here for you to read free.

Plath depicts mental suffering as being totally enclosed in a bell jar, with no openings. So you continually take in your own bad air. That is, your own confused thinking. With no input from the outside, you sink deeper and deeper into the abyss. We commonly refer to that as "isolation."

Isolation is exactly the state of being when attempting to sort out emotional turmoil with a chat bot. 

At least when you phone or text a free 24/7 mental health crisis line like Samaritans you're engaging with another human being. Attend the free peer-to-peer weekly meeting at the National Alliance for Mental Health (NAMI) and there's plenty of input. Free 12-step program Emotions Anonymous offers in-person meetings, with opportunities for fellowship before and after. You contact a tarot reader like myself and you receive caring individually focused perspective. Most communities have urgent-access centers like Toledo's ZEPF to find refuge and a cup of coffee. 

Isolation is not just an ineffective approach to mental suffering. It can be dangerous. TechCrunch reports: 

"In the lead up to the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada last month, 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar spoke to ChatGPT about her feelings of isolation and an increasing obsession with violence, according to court filings." 

TechCrunch adds another snippet about a suicide who had been sharing with Google's chat bot Gemini.

Sharing emotional pain points with chat bots is bound to increase as the technology developers improve the bots' ability to engage with humans. Empathy, for example, is better and better simulated. And they include in their communication what they remember about you. 

It doesn't require a mental health professional or an experienced plaintiff lawyer to connect the dots on this one. And the Ah-Ha conclusion is that chat bots have no place in processing issues related to mental suffering. That function should be banned.

Meanwhile, more and more of those hit hard by life are reaching out to psychics for input. That signals they have hope. Are those caught in the closed system of chat bots giving up on hope? In the tarot both hope and the lack of it are symbolized in the Five of Pentacles.



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