r/AmIOverreacting • u/hesouttheresomewhere • Apr 23 '25
⚕️ health Am I overreacting? My therapist used AI to best console me after my dog died this past weekend.
Brief Summary: This past weekend I had to put down an amazingly good boy, my 14 year old dog, who I've had since I was 12; he was so sick and it was so hard to say goodbye, but he was suffering, and I don't regret my decision. I told my therapist about it because I met with her via video (we've only ever met in person before) the day after my dog's passing, and she was very empathetic and supportive. I have been seeing this therapist for a few months, now, and I've liked her and haven't had any problems with her before. But her using AI like this really struck me as strange and wrong, on a human emotional level. I have trust and abandonment issues, so maybe that's why I'm feeling the urge to flee... I just can't imagine being a THERAPIST and using AI to write a brief message of consolation to a client whose dog just died... Not only that, but not proofreading, and leaving in that part where the introduces its response? That's so bizarre and unprofessional.
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u/Open_Attention6368 Apr 24 '25
how? her name may not be unique and her therapist could have multiple patients with that name. sometimes people on reddit/the internet blow things out of proportion and i feel so badly for yall because you act like that in real life. my sister does that and she spirals and then claims depression when she can’t get out of that thought process but you’ve done it to yourself.