For the past few months, I've been running an experiment. Today, I've marked that experiment as both concluded and a fai...

For the past few months, I've been running an experiment. Today, I've marked that experiment as both concluded and a failure.Using Claude, I set up a mental health tracking "project", and started using it as an interactive journal. Added in some data from tools that I'm already collecting data from (sleep tracking, daily mood tracking), and it felt like I was getting a real grip on my mental health. Even better, I had a place to vent that didn't have to go to people. Completely safe, nobody being harmed, and I could be completely and bluntly honest.I was doing this because I have treatment resistant depression. In addition to the professionals I go to, I need a way to keep thoughts together between visits, and track how I'm doing.And Claude (and likely others) would keep referring me to people. No matter what I did, no matter how many times I'd say all of the above, it would flag anything and everything as "go talk to the professionals, you need it", even though I had already explicitl...

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