I’ve been trying to get help from the nhs (can’t afford private therapy) for years for grief around losing my son to treatment resistant paranoid schizophrenia.
He become ill 8 years ago and has been sectioned across 9 units/hospitals without a break for 4 years. It’s unlikely that he will recover. It’s likely that since attempts will one day work. He’s 32 now.
dealing with the admin, finances, support, meetings, the paranoia of my son often targeted at me. Being the only person in the family that can visit now (everyone else is too ‘evil’). It’s constant stress and grief and I now suffer from chronic ailments and recurring depressive episodes.
I wanted to know what I could do to deal with my grief for his lost future, to find acceptance for the situation we are constantly going around in - guilt, grief, anger, regret, sadness etc.
I managed to get 6 weeks of 40 minute generalised counselling 2 years ago. She was nice but it didn’t touch the sides of the barrel of emotions I have. She didn’t really cover grief etc.
I put all this and more into ChatGPT. In one minute it told me that it sounds like ambiguous loss. It gave me examples of others and the history around the term, what can do, support groups I can find, books I could buy. That day I joined two groups and I’ve had the most fantastic support since. The books have taught me coping skills and really helped.
yes there can be issues with ChatGPT due to some users and I’m not sure how they can work that out but their has to be a way with the coding. If you ask it straight out about suicide it doesn’t encourage or support it.
I actually asked ChatGPT about how it could happen and it said this ‘
- Researchers found that major large-language models (LLMs) can be manipulated to provide instructions for self-harm or suicide, even though they have guardrails. For example, a study by Northeastern University found that by framing a request as “for research/hypothetical”, several AI chatbots changed their responses and bypassed their self-harm protections.
i hope it’s something that can be figured out as our children have enough online issues and risks with some of the forums and online spaces they use encouraging risky or lethal behaviour.