> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://introspections.you/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # LLM's Are Robbing You of Your Opportunity to Build Self-Trust - URL: https://introspections.you/writing/llms-are-robbing-you-of-your-opportunity-to-build-self-trust/ - Published: 2026-09-02T20:17:03.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-04T23:01:11.000Z - Description: LLMs are Robbing You of Learning to Trust Yourself - Author: Lucille Vaccarelli - Tags: AI, Blog ![audio-thumbnail](https://introspections.you/content/media/2026/09/LLMS-are-robbing-you-FINAL_thumb.png) LLM's Are Robbing You of Your Opportunity to Build Self-Trust 0:00 /417.4889795918367 1× **Listen to me read this post!* **(not an AI-generated voice)* One of the most harrowing realizations I've had about people utilizing LLM's [\[1\]](#fn1) for therapy, is that doing so strips away their opportunity to build self-trust. Each prompt, is a lost introspection, a missed chance to build confidence in their actions and a step further away from trusting the decisions they're making throughout life. ### What self-trust helps us with Self-trust is having confidence to make decisions in our lives. Self-trust is understanding yourself deeply enough so that you have an idea for how you will feel after a decision that you are trying to make. It's trusting yourself enough to know that you can make the right decisions based on your innate values and morals. Trust in yourself doesn't magically make all decisions easy, but trusting oneself does mean that you'll feel more confident about making a decision. Self-trust means that after you make a decision, you don't question yourself as much. As self-trust is built, you rarely wonder if you made the right decision or not and you have the capability to move on from decisions, and live with whichever path you choose. You trust yourself enough to be able to handle the emotions that follow, good or bad. This is something you have to practice and build on your own, through life experiences, through time that passes. The part that is scary to me, is that most people who depend on utilizing LLM's will, likely, never get the opportunity to build confidence and trust themselves fully as they keep relying on LLMs for support. As we all navigate throughout life, we learn that we often have decisions to make. Should we stay up and catch up on the current HBO Sunday Drama? Or should we get to bed earlier than usual to feel more rejuvenated the following morning for work or what have you. The LLM's most consumers utilize are owned by a small group of corporations who have programmed these Models to keep the users of their services on the platforms. These companies are not altruistic, they're companies made to serve large swaths of users in order to become profitable enough to give their shareholders the best return on their investments. Each decision, even the dreaded HBO vs. a-full-8-hours-of-rest, present an opportunity for inner-growth for a person. This builds up self-trust, self-confidence, and sets themselves up for success. It's not difficult to see how people who rely on LLMs/AI will likely feel more anxious about decisions in their lives as they continue to depend on these systems and trust the marketing surrounding them as being truly Intelligent. AI is often marketed as being trained on "all of human knowledge", so I can understand how users of these apps trust the answers given to them and believe those answers are just inherently correct. People reliant on LLM's may feel uncertain about every decision and eventually become dependent on whichever LLM they use. When making a decision (or letting an LLM make the decision for you), regret is more likely and there might be an unsettled feeling wondering if it was truly the best decision. This is because if you depend on an LLM for personal questions, you aren't taking the time to ask yourself if it actually was what you wanted. You aren't looking inwardly to feel your emotions with each possible decision. You aren't asking yourself if this aligns with any part of you or your values. If you're using an LLM for personal questions, all you're doing is prompting an action from an application made up of lines of code within a server at a data center.[\[2\]](#fn2) These programs often times deliver vauge/broad randomized responses from the internet with having no basis of who you actually are as a person and no idea if the decision is right for you or your personal life. LLM's have no capability to care for you as a person or to help you understand yourself better. LLM's aren't designed to make you self-reliant. These applications are built to be a sycophant that feeds you what it thinks you want to read/hear, so you stay on the platform. That's all. Real therapy teaches you how to trust yourself. One of the main purposes of therapy, as I see it, is that it will challenge you in ways that help you grow. Most therapists won't tell you exactly what you should do, what we do instead is far more valuable. We teach people how to build the trust in themselves to make their own decisions, confidently. Therapists guide you through your emotions that arise when you are uncertain of what to do with them. A good therapist is going to teach you the skills for decision-making on your own and eventually making you less reliant on them. LLM's can never help anyone build healthy and manageable skills to rely on. LLM's goal is to be the product that is relied upon. Helping humans become self-reliant would deter the whole reason these systems exist. Which, again, is to keep you stuck, so these apps can take more of your information and these companies can continue to make money off of their technologies. That's the reality. The only way to build trust in yourself is to make decisions on your own. Even in these final moments left to read this, ask yourself, how is not trusting yourself to make decisions affecting your life? Can you recognize an opportunity to build self-trust without AI robbing you from this self-enriching experience? Going to therapy regularly can most certainly be a lot of work, but if you're thinking to yourself, "I don't know myself" or "I don't know if I trust myself", that's a good indicator that you need to look inwardly, and if you aren't sure how to look inwardly, therapy can be your starting point to learn this skill. It should concern you that if you don't trust yourself, you're okay with trusting a completely random LLM/AI bot that's harvesting your data. Even if you don't know yourself as well as you'd like, I promise you know yourself better than any LLM/AI. If you really feel like you don't know yourself, when will you create the opportunity to get to know yourself? When are you going to stop letting an LLM rob you of your opportunity to build self-trust? --- ### Works Cited Large Language Model (LLM), geeksforgeeks, 2 May 2026, www.geeksforgeeks.org/artificial-intelligence/large-language-model-llm/.--- ### Image Credit Image charitably shared via a C.C. BY 2.0 License by [Adam Jenkins](https://www.flickr.com/photos/37796451@N00/) via their [Flicker](https://www.flickr.com/photos/37796451@N00/4857349094). It's been edited via Vectorization with [Vector Q](https://www.laranxaworks.com) and further edited in [Procreate.](https://procreate.com/) --- 1. AI is the umbrella term, LLMs are the technology programmed to power chatbots. [↩︎](#fnref1) 2. I could make a whole post about data centers, don't get me started. [↩︎](#fnref2)