AI and Mental Health: A Powerful Tool in the Right Hands, a Risk in the Wrong Ones

Last year I was burnt out, unable to sleep, watching a business I'd built slowly lose revenue. Before I flew to Thailand alone, my therapist laid some foundations. Thailand gave me space to think. And somewhere in the middle of working through it all, I started talking to an AI. Not as a replacement for therapy. As a thinking partner. What it did was connect dots I'd been circling for years. It named patterns I couldn't name myself. I came back with more self-knowledge than I'd accumulated in five years of piecing things together alone. But I also know exactly why the same tool could destroy someone else.