Forbes January 11, 2026
Lance Eliot

In today’s column, I examine an intriguing AI-related mental health topic that hasn’t yet gotten attention due to the newness involved in the emergence of generative AI and LLMs. The deal is this. Suppose you opt to use AI for mental health guidance. This might go on for several weeks, perhaps many months, or even longer. At some point, assume that you decide to stop conferring with AI for your mental health considerations. Time passes.

Would choosing to start using AI again for your mental health guidance be akin to revisiting a human therapist that you had once seen but had stopped seeing for some length of time?

It is an intriguing parallel circumstance worthy of consideration.

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Mental Health, Provider, Technology
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