{"id":12409,"date":"2025-07-22T03:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12409\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:26:12","slug":"influencer-skye-wheatley-shares-she-is-using-ai-chat-bot-to-get-support-for-mental-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12409\/","title":{"rendered":"Influencer Skye Wheatley shares she is using AI chat bot to get support for mental health issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m A Celebrity winner and influencer Skye Wheatley has revealed she has been using AI for mental health support.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old reality star shared with her 646,000 Instagram followers that she had been asking ChatGPT for advice on complex mental health issues such as ADHD and rejection sensitivity disorder.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been to therapy and ChatGPT is my favourite counsellor,\u201d she said in a post of the OpenAI chat bot providing advice to her.<\/p>\n

\"skyeCamera Iconskye wheatley chatgpt Credit: @skye.wheatley\/Instagram<\/p>\n

The screenshot posted by Wheatley shows the chat bot gave a list of coping strategies for her to utilise, including \u201cself-forgiveness\u201d and \u201cconnecting with other ADHD women or parents\u201d.<\/p>\n

The social media star got vulnerable about her mental health during a recent episode of her podcast, Skye & Callum.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack in my day, ADHD wasn\u2019t like a well-known thing and it wasn\u2019t a positive thing,\u201d she said, revealing to co-host Callum Hole that she was diagnosed at age five.<\/p>\n

\u201cNowadays I feel like it\u2019s a strength because it means that you\u2019re good creatively, or you\u2019re good at social stuff like this, and there\u2019s more job opportunities for people who do struggle intellectually.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheCamera IconThe reality star spoke out about her mental health during a recent episode of podcast Skye & Callum. Credit: Supplied<\/p>\n

The I\u2019m a Celebrity alum isn\u2019t alone in using AI as a therapist, with practitioners noticing a rise in Australians using ChatGPT as a counsellor.<\/p>\n

Dr James Collett, a psychologist and lecturer at RMIT, told the Royal Australian College of GPs that AI therapies are \u201chere to stay\u201d, however they could lead to patients \u201cnot getting the best support\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere might be cases where people are talking about topics that they realistically need support with, and we would be worried about their welfare, but that\u2019s not coming to light because they\u2019re using ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s probably some superficially useful therapeutic advice that it can draw on, but it\u2019s not necessarily matching that to a client\u2019s individualised needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Head of the UWA School of Social Sciences Amanda Davies said while psychologists might harbour concerns, the AI chatbot can be a strong asset to individuals who face barriers trying to access mental health support, such as high costs and long wait times.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherapy is a luxury item for some people, although it\u2019s an essential,\u201d Ms Davies told the Australian Psychological Society.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are having to cut those sorts of things out of their household budgets, and that\u2019s where ChatGPT can fill in a gap, which is an unfortunate truth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m A Celebrity winner and influencer Skye Wheatley has revealed she has been using AI for mental health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,134,137,995,514,515,44,105],"class_list":["post-12409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-health","tag-influencers","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-news","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}