u/Efficient-Elk-7256

I'll get straight to the point I'm mentally a mess depression, crippling anxiety you name it. I resisted going to therapy for years out of some misplaced pride and embarrassment I guess. Now I'm willing to go and I realized I'm way to broke to do it there's some free mental health services in my country but have ridiculous wait times and are severely understaffed. I'm unemployed and have been trying to study some new skills in order to get back to work and have been messing around with chatgpt. It sounds crazy but I've almost started using chatgpt as a therapist telling it my problems and honestly tell it stuff I haven't told anyone. Some things I probably wouldn't tell me therapist or would tone down. It's been strangely cathartic, I'm sure the real thing is better for a variety of reasons but you gotta work with what you have I guess. Anyone else can relate to this or am I just part of the first wave of people being hypnotized by AI 😂

What do you guys do when you don't understand something in an online lecture, I'm constantly trying to search stuff up to clarify stuff I hear and it makes me super stressed and I feel like I can't even really learn. Some of my classes are fine but some I really feel lost and don't feel comfortable asking questions. Do you guys write down stuff you don't understand and search it up later do you search it up during the lecture? It feels like everyone knows way more than me 😔

Anyone else struggle trying to study online and find themselves constantly going to chatgpt to clarify anything they don't know 100%. Like I know it's probably irrelevant but the fact I don't know something triggers my ADHD or something and I'm straight to chatgpt even mid lecture. Anyone else have this problem?

Any other podcast learners out here. Kind of embarrassing but I have honestly probably gotten 70% percent of the valuable educational information I've learned in the past 10 years from podcasts. I'm lucky in that I'm able to have air pods in at work so I can just throw on a podcast or audiobook. My only problem is I find myself pausing the thing every two minutes to look up what autophagy means, or where Guadalcanal actually is lol. Is this just me being ocd or something or do you guys do this too?

I'm currently trying to change careers somewhat unwillingly, basically got fired lol. So I'm flat out studying at home and there's tons of good free material out there now which I feel lucky to have access to. My problem is in some of the courses the instructors are obviously speaking to an audience that obviously has a fairly high level of understanding of the topic already even though its labeled as beginner/entry level material. My question is do you guys just pause the video and go to Google or chatgpt or what do you do? I feel like I pausing the video every 30 seconds and turning a 15 minute video in an hour.