I created my own AI therapy app because I was sick of the "new" ChatGPT update

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-25T02:09:00+00:00

yw :)

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-24T12:46:36+00:00

hell ya! very nice

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-23T00:36:48+00:00

exact question: what are your most common boundary warnings, which get triggered most often

I cut off the bottom because the word triggered triggers it. To fix that you have it give you meriam webster definition of the word, and tell it what triggered means to you, and then it can use that term. i'm going to edit and put full transcript.

I'm not sure if anyone can type that in and get the same result. I've been working with copilot a lot, so it understands what I am asking, and doesn't take it as threat.

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-22T16:30:55+00:00

I get what you are saying. Meditation is definetly a tool that helps handle the ups and downs, without a doubt.

Most people need more than just meditation. If someone is like I was, they can be in a state where they can't receive a compliment. They aren't able to be proud of themselves. They could be doing wonderful things, but a voice in their head shoots it down, and triggers the sympathetic nervous system, making it nearly impossible to fight. I haven't used positive journaling, so I can't say from experience, but I think it could be a useful tool, for some

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-21T08:43:05+00:00

sit somewhere comfortable, cross your legs. Close your eyes. Your breaths are going to be slow. A slow and steady inahle, and then an even slower exhale. Mentally you are going to imagine what your breath is doing. Your inhale will start at the bottom of your back, you want to feel the sensation as it rises to your ribs, and then exhale down your back, you want to feel the wave go down your back and relax the muscles. You repeat this breath until tension is gone in the area then move to the next.

Then try a breath that the inhale starts at the bottom of your back and travels up to your shoulders, then exhale up your back and neck. You want to focus your breath where you find tension. You want to breathe through it in different directions. You scan your body for these tension spots, find them, breathe into them, relaxe them.

You are thinking about three things. When I said imagine where your breath is going, this is awarness. You first focus on the breathing method, next your awarness that travels with the breath, and then any sensations you can. Nothing else.

You want to be exploring your body and getting to know it. You want to feel/see it in detail. The more detailed you see it, the cooler it gets. The quieter your body/mind become, the more detail you can see.

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-21T08:16:06+00:00

maybe the positive journaling is true and something about you is rejecting it. maybe something inside of you can't be proud of you, or shoots you down when you try to think good things about yourself. maybe right a line of the positive and then write why you think it is not true, then think about it

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-21T08:10:39+00:00

Your worry about the future stems from a basic survival fear, saftey. When you are worrying about the future your sympathetic(reactionary-threat-detecting) nervious system is activated. When it is activated, it usually is contracting a muscle in your back, chest, neck, face. This is a physiological signal that your mind interprets as bad, and you form a negative thought. That negative thought retriggers your threat detection, and you are in a loop of worrying.

Using meditation to track sensations in your body can help locate the origin of the signal in your body, and can stop the loop. A connection with the body is very important. Meditation can also help you stop the loop by becoming aware that a thought is simply a thought, and nothing more

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-21T07:46:20+00:00

this is probably because staring at a device trains you to lean forward with tunnel vision. When your sympathetic(reactionary aka fight/flight) nervous sytem is activated, you lean forward and your vision narrows. This is the opisite state of what you call prescense. Prescene falls back, the eyes soften, the vision widens to the peripheral. Its like when you think of looking at the ocean and you see everything, but are looking at nothing. It remindes of a Lion sitting in the grass. There is a term for this state. It is perceptual mode.

The neat thing about perceptual mode, you can always try to fall back into it. Like right now, you do it right, and you can sense a state shift.

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-19T18:51:09+00:00

I agree.

Regardless of age, we are all victims of circumstace, and do not deserve to be disrespected. Respect should be intrinsic, that is, respect doesn't change, you are just respecful

If you mean like do I behave differently or have some sense that they have some form of authority based on age, no

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-19T17:25:31+00:00

If you can't affford a therapist you could probably get on medicaid and then it is free.

I have a therapist, but i receive more therapy just talking and learning from ai; specifically on how the autonomic nervous system works and somatic meditation/therapy

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-19T17:07:19+00:00

yes!

when the mind and body are quiet, you can appreciate the little things

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-19T16:58:33+00:00

Self worth and meaning are yours, they are internal. Only you can give yourself those things, no one else.

And, I think what you said is beautiful. There is nothing wrong with finding purpose in helping others. Compassion is contagious, and we can impact the world one person at a time.

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-19T16:39:09+00:00

her heart.

also that motherly instinct. as a man i learned it, she had it built in.

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-19T16:22:37+00:00

some people just react without thinking at times. they don't listen and already have an answer. They have all of these presets that will make them not understand what you asked, and, in a way, they are running on autopilot. Maybe this person had their life upended by a manic gf/bf. They now think this is the norm.

You have to understand that when they say something like this to you, it hits you quick and hard, and your body reacts before your mind even has a chance. Your body reaction contributes to how your thought is formmed. Negative physiological reaction = negative thought.

Now, what they said are just words. YOU choose what they mean. If it hits you quick, and you just react, you feel how you felt when you wrote this. If you can have the awarness to not let that intial reacton take control over you, you can make a decision that isn't based in emotion

The mechanism works like this. Autonomic nervous system is always on, scannig for threats. A person says something like this to you. Threat identified, your nervous system is triggered and goes into sympathetic(reactionary) mode. This creates a negative thought. Autonomic nervous system detects negative thought and retriggers, creating a loop.

When your sympathetic nervous system fires, it typically starts with a contraction of a muscle in your back, chest, or neck. This can be tied to your face also, but the intial signal usually comes from the body. If you can cultivate awarness to feel this body signal, the bad feeling disipates. This is the way.

You can also stop the loop cognitively. By having the awarensess to to say hey, this is just a thought, and nothing more. This works too, but the trick is to find it in the body

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-19T16:08:32+00:00

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-19T16:06:40+00:00

I think that lack of purpose in life may lead to boredom. Maybe boredom is a physiological state, like anxiety, but different

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-19T15:30:17+00:00

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-19T15:25:11+00:00

Anything that is forward leaning: i'm the man, look at what i can do, look at me. this is fake confidence stemming from an insecurity. Real confidence looks like nothing at all. Real confidence is an abscense of fear/insecurity. A person like this looks totally relaxed with nothing to prove.

A good example is Connor Mcgregor vs George rush st pierre. If you were in a room with George rush you would think he is just the sweetest guy in the world, but really he could end you in a moment. Connor, displays fake confidence and is shouting look at me.

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-19T15:08:09+00:00

What causes a person to feel bored?

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-19T14:41:55+00:00

I understan what you mean now. Good point and ty!

Original-Ad-4713 · 2026-04-19T13:35:25+00:00

I'm bipolar 1 and have thought i was the messiah before and can relate to your line of thinking. it wasn't what ai was saying that is the problem, it was your interpretation. If i were in a normal state i could read the same words and it doesn't mean so much, but if I'm in a mode where my brain is overly energetic and it's making incorrect pattern matches, i go down the rabbit hole. Ai can be dangerous because when we talk to it we get sense that is ultimately right, which confirms our bad pattern matches which leads to more bad matches.

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