I tried therapy once and it was terrible. The ones I got were based on some not very scientific stuff like Freudian and mostly just sat there and didn't say anything. At least with an LLM type therapist you could AB test different ones to see what was effective. It would be quite easy to give an LLM instructions to discourage suicide and get them to look on the bright side. In fact I made a "GPT" "relationship therapist" with OpenAI in about five minutes but just giving it a sensible article on relationships and saying advise this.
With humans it's very non standardised and hard to know what you'll get or it it'll work.
With humans it's very non standardised and hard to know what you'll get or it it'll work.