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ChatGPT vs. Therapist: Stop Asking the Computer and Start Asking Each Other | Sanity Optional | Episode 11
Alexis has a bone to pick with ChatGPT. She works through the most googled mental health, sex, and dating questions and makes the case that most of what people are searching for has nothing to do with information; it’s about wanting to know that someone else feels the same way. She also gets into burnout culture, why community has quietly disappeared from modern life, and why the simple act of talking to a stranger might be more healing than anything you will find on a screen.
Timestamps
00:00 ChatGPT vs. Therapist
01:36 ChatGPT’s Offense: Therapist to Therapist
04:00 Is What I’m Feeling Normal?
06:56 Coping with Stress: It’s Not That Serious
08:11 Sex Drive and Body Normality
09:37 Feeling Stuck and Burnt Out
12:12 Dating: Why Can’t I Find Someone?
14:31 Funny Questions and Texting Etiquette
16:40 The Fear of Human Connection
17:50 ChatGPT as a Tool, Not a Replacement
21:07 Bringing Back Community and Connection
ABOUT SANITY OPTIONAL
Sanity Optional is a podcast about the parts of mental health we usually keep to ourselves.
It’s for the moments when your life looks fine on the outside but feels messy underneath. When you’re tired of being told to “do the work.” When you secretly wonder if you’re the only one struggling with something that feels too taboo to say out loud.
Hosted by therapist and founder of Rowan Healing, Alexis Ely, this show was created for people who feel like they’re in the other club. The ones who don’t fit the timeline. The ones who have been to the edge of their own mind and made it back.
Alexis shares her story, from early trauma and suicidal depression to the perfectionism and addiction that followed, and ultimately the kind of peace she once believed was impossible. She brings clinical experience and lived experience into the same room, without turning healing into a performance or a checklist.
This isn’t about becoming a better version of yourself. It’s about feeling at home in your own mind.
Welcome to the rabbit hole.
Show Links
Rowan Healing: https://www.rowanhealing.com/
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By Speakeasy StudiosAlexis has a bone to pick with ChatGPT. She works through the most googled mental health, sex, and dating questions and makes the case that most of what people are searching for has nothing to do with information; it’s about wanting to know that someone else feels the same way. She also gets into burnout culture, why community has quietly disappeared from modern life, and why the simple act of talking to a stranger might be more healing than anything you will find on a screen.
Timestamps
00:00 ChatGPT vs. Therapist
01:36 ChatGPT’s Offense: Therapist to Therapist
04:00 Is What I’m Feeling Normal?
06:56 Coping with Stress: It’s Not That Serious
08:11 Sex Drive and Body Normality
09:37 Feeling Stuck and Burnt Out
12:12 Dating: Why Can’t I Find Someone?
14:31 Funny Questions and Texting Etiquette
16:40 The Fear of Human Connection
17:50 ChatGPT as a Tool, Not a Replacement
21:07 Bringing Back Community and Connection
ABOUT SANITY OPTIONAL
Sanity Optional is a podcast about the parts of mental health we usually keep to ourselves.
It’s for the moments when your life looks fine on the outside but feels messy underneath. When you’re tired of being told to “do the work.” When you secretly wonder if you’re the only one struggling with something that feels too taboo to say out loud.
Hosted by therapist and founder of Rowan Healing, Alexis Ely, this show was created for people who feel like they’re in the other club. The ones who don’t fit the timeline. The ones who have been to the edge of their own mind and made it back.
Alexis shares her story, from early trauma and suicidal depression to the perfectionism and addiction that followed, and ultimately the kind of peace she once believed was impossible. She brings clinical experience and lived experience into the same room, without turning healing into a performance or a checklist.
This isn’t about becoming a better version of yourself. It’s about feeling at home in your own mind.
Welcome to the rabbit hole.
Show Links
Rowan Healing: https://www.rowanhealing.com/