Then it’s actually better to talk to yourself. Not an LLM that’s trained on all of the internet’s combo of valuable and unhinged takes on all matter of trauma.

It's not the same. An internalised conversation doesn't have the same effect.

And I have good experiences with the LLM for this purpose. It's probably my prompt and RAG that I provided with a lot of my personal stuff but even the uncensored model I use is always supportive and often comes up with interesting takes / practical suggestions.

I don't rely on it for advice but for talking to when real friends aren't around and there's something urgent I'm worried about it's really good.