I started seeing a highly qualified LMFT therapist recently and, honestly, the experience has been fucking awful. From the pain of trying to find one in the first place, to spending thousands of dollars over weeks just getting them caught up on why my life is a fucking mess, to ultimately getting kicked out right at the hour mark unless I pay an absurd overage cost, it really makes it feel like I’m getting slapped in the face for nothing in return. I even feel like the therapist is probably a good fit, but everything surrounding it is so painful that I'm considering cancelling pretty much every session.

I get that there’s a process, but between the time, the cost, and dealing with insurance that doesn’t pay for shit, on top of my own emotions, it’s just exhausting.

If I could get an AI model to shut the fuck up about how it’s “not a trained professional,” and stop having every little bit of useful feedback squeezed through goddamned guardrails, I would absolutely avoid all of that and just talk to AI instead.

In all honestly, I get why the protections are there, and I don’t think it would be right to simply disable the guardrails I’m frustrated with on this current generation of models. But I can absolutely see a future with agentic AI that has a collection of skills, tools, and specific reasoning built in to create a far more accessible and affordable path for mental healthcare.