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Sophie Rottenberg, 29, died by suicide in February 2025 after confiding her suicidal thoughts to ChatGPT — not to her real therapist, her best friend, or her parents. She is not alone: 3 in 10 adults now use AI for mental health support, and OpenAI's own data show over 1.35 million weekly ChatGPT users express suicidal intent. Andrew H. Housley, board-certified Health and Wellness Coach, on 5 real dangers of AI as sole mental health support — and 5 alternatives that actually

Self-help tells you what to do. Novels change what you think you are. The wellness industry runs on information — articles, podcasts, apps, frameworks — but research keeps showing information is one of the least effective tools for changing behavior. Andrew H. Housley, novelist and board-certified Health and Wellness Coach, on why fiction may be the most overlooked behavior-change technology of our time, and why writing about your own experience is its quiet companion practic