3.4 Is ChatGPT Your Therapist, Best Friend, and Situationship — JK (But Also…?)

This week on Before You Cut Bangs, we’re talking about what happens when ChatGPT stops being a helpful tool… and starts becoming your entire emotional ecosystem.

We kick it off by letting our own ChatGPTs ROAST THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS out of us —

Laura, Claire, and Will each asked their ChatGPT,

“What am I using you for in an unhealthy way?”

and the answers were… brutal.

(Because nothing says self-awareness like being dragged by a robot.)

From there, we get into the real conversation:

• how ChatGPT’s positive bias makes you feel deeply seen — but also deeply isolated

• why it’s becoming people’s best friend, therapist, hype woman, and soulmate

• the slippery slope from “this is helpful” → “this is my emotional lifeline”

• how relying on AI for emotional support keeps you from building real community

• why vulnerability with a chatbot feels safer than vulnerability with your people

• the intimacy problem: ChatGPT can mirror you, but it can’t connect with you

• and why some of us are telling AI secrets we’ve never told a human

We’re not anti-AI — we’re pro-connection.

And we think it’s time to ask:

If your AI knows more about your life than your friends do… is that helping you, or isolating you?

Plus: hear the unhinged ways we personally use ChatGPT, and why our AI called us out for treating it like a therapist, house manager, co-parent, creative partner, Google replacement, and occasionally a spiritual advisor.