>I’ve had a therapist recommend me take a motorbike trek across Europe (because that’s what he did) to cure my depression.

It's not bad advice.

> I’ve had a therapist recommend me take a motorbike trek across Europe (because that’s what he did) to cure my depression.

When I try to help people in support group/ therapy group although I am not a therapist, I also try to explain how I fixed my issues or how I do so.

I feel like, that isn't bad take to be really honest in the sense that I personally feel like there are times when we lose the fact that our lives have purpose and your therapist grappled with it by having a unitary goal for himself

If you felt like that was a bad idea, just tell him that what is the thing that they got out of the motorbike trek race that cured their depression, I'd be more curious about that. Considering, maybe then I can try to see if my life has/had the same problems and what is the common theme and discussing about it later.

Personally I feel like Chatgpt is extremely sycophantic and I feel really weird interacting with it. For one, I really like interacting with humans atleast in the therapy mindset I suppose.

But telling someone living in New York with a full-time job and a girlfriend etc, that the solution to their depression is to quit their job and take several months to travel across Europe on a motorbike isn't exactly practical advice. Which was my point.

I could get better advice by asking an LLM what to do about my depression.

Ah context matters.. for someone currently single lets say with no jobs and feeling lack of purpose, it wouldn't have been so bad. Maybe tried to self project with different context and I mean, its understandable why you might feel this way regarding him

I still doubt asking an LLM about depression if I am being honest, I just don't think its the best thing overall or something that should be considered norm I suppose but I am not sure as even in things like these context matters.