By Dr. Johnathan Hines, DCC • Dr. Hines Inc.
It was late. The house was quiet. She was asleep. Or in the other room. Either way, you were alone with whatever was eating you alive. So you opened ChatGPT and typed something you've never said out loud.
Maybe it was: "I think my wife hates me." Maybe: "Why do I feel nothing?" Maybe: "Am I a narcissist?" Maybe: "How do I know if my childhood was abusive?" The AI gave you language. Validated your feelings. Offered frameworks. For a few minutes, something finally made sense.
Then it said: "I'd recommend speaking with a licensed professional."
And you closed the app.
Because a machine won't judge you. A machine won't look at you differently. A machine won't tell your wife. A machine doesn't have a face that changes when you say the thing you've been hiding. For a man who was taught that vulnerability is weakness, an AI chatbot is the safest confessional on earth.
The fact that you typed it at all means something. It means the pressure has built to the point where even a conversation with software felt necessary. It means the thing you're carrying has gotten too heavy to carry alone. It means part of you, the part the system hasn't killed yet, is looking for a way out.
ChatGPT can give you vocabulary. It can explain narcissistic abuse, father wounds, trauma bonding, learned helplessness. It's good at that. But it can't look you in the eye and say "I've been where you are." It can't call you out when you're making excuses. It can't sit across from you and hold space for the thing that breaks you open.
It can't give you a plan. A real plan. One that accounts for your specific wound, your specific system, your specific triggers. It gives general advice. You need specific intervention.
And it can't fight for you. When you start to backslide, when the system pulls you back, when the trauma bond screams, you need a man in your corner. Not an algorithm. A man.
The algorithm sent you to find help. Now you're reading this. That's not coincidence. That's the part of you that's still alive doing what it does: surviving. Looking for the exit.
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