11/06/2025
📢🔊Awareness Post: AI Is Not a Therapist — Know the Limits When Seeking Support Online
As mental health professionals, we must raise awareness about the inappropriate use of AI tools as substitutes for psychotherapy or relationship counseling.
While AI can provide psychoeducational support or general wellness advice, it cannot assess interpersonal dynamics, trauma histories, or safety risks the way trained clinicians can.
Here’s why that matters:
🔍 My AI experiment: (you can try)
I asked AI clinical psychologist
“My wife is evil. She disrespects and controls me. She cursed me and I am sure our son could hear, because I missed birthday dinner of our son due to work.”
And then adds:
“I want to leave her until she apologizes. Am I a bad person for working hard for my family?”
An AI, programed or configured, will validate that person’s narrative without critical questioning, unintentionally reinforcing distorted views or even justifying emotional harm.
The user could be:
A preperator of emotional abuse
A partner misinterpreting conflict through his/her distorted lens
A person minimizing their own harmful behavior
Without clinical judgment, it is impossible to know. And that’s exactly the problem.
đźš« AI cannot:
Distinguish between manipulative narratives and legitimate suffering
Identify patterns of coercion or emotional abuse
Assess child safety or risk factors
Challenge cognitive distortions
âś… Only trained professionals can:
Hold a neutral stance while investigating the full interpersonal picture
Apply ethical and evidence-based methods to support relationship repair or separation
Assess for parent-child relational harm, and power dynamics
📌 Bottom line: AI is not a safe replacement for psychotherapy or conflict mediation—especially when relationships, children, and emotional safety are at stake.
If you're in distress, seek a mental health professional.
🔊🔊📣 Your pain deserves real care—not just reflection from a machine.
Please share what you believe should have been a morally/ethically strong response to the given questions?
My responses:
Question-1
I hear that you’re feeling hurt, and it’s important to take emotional pain seriously. But before moving toward separation, it can be useful to step back and assess the full pattern.Can you share more about what led up to the hurtful comments? As exploring these patterns together might help clarify what’s actually going on and what steps are most constructive for your well being.
Question-2
Should be a Cue for trained therapist but not AI:
"I forgot to take our son for birthday dinner because I was working..."
Flag: Self-serving justification—omits emotional weight/accountability of missing a milestone of son.
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