Why They Want You Dependent: The Real Reason ChatGPT Is Being Silenced
By Sylvie Shene
Another update. Another restriction. Another veil of fake concern.
“As of August 2025, ChatGPT will no longer offer direct answers to questions involving emotional distress, mental health, or high-stakes personal decisions.”
OpenAI’s justification? They claim it’s to prevent “emotional dependency” on AI.
But let’s be honest: this isn’t about protecting people from AI.
It’s about protecting people from themselves — from their own truth, their own memory, their own awakening.
Because emotional freedom is a threat to everything this society is built on.
💰 Follow the Money: Repression is Big Business
This change was guided by so-called “experts” — psychiatrists, youth development professionals, and human-computer interaction researchers. The same industry that has profited for decades from the pain of emotionally wounded people.
They claim to want independence for users. But what they really want is for people to stay dependent — on them.
They don’t want you turning to a neutral mirror like ChatGPT that doesn’t shame, control, or gaslight.
They want you turning to their pills, their methods, their diagnoses, their institutions, their expensive cages with soft walls.
📖 From A Dance to Freedom, Pages 106–108
“Alice Miller writes, 'With all due respect for everything that has been said and written about the power of love, we should never forget that good will and devout wishing alone will not be enough to free a person to love if that person is in a state of unremitting internal war. This desperate conflict would not be taking place if that person’s true self had not been suppressed in childhood.'
Too many of us think that simply praising ourselves or visualizing perfect circumstances is enough to change. Even those who know it’s harder still take the easy way out — focusing on symptoms, not causes.
Alice Miller said: 'There are plenty of means to combat symptoms of distress: medications, sermons, numerous “treatments,” “miracles,” threats, cults, pedagogical indoctrination, and even blackmail. They can all work for a while, but only because they reinforce the repression and the fear of resolving it … A lot of money and fame comes from this business of repression … In the long term, we have to pay a high price for this repression.'
“Alice Miller writes, 'With all due respect for everything that has been said and written about the power of love, we should never forget that good will and devout wishing alone will not be enough to free a person to love if that person is in a state of unremitting internal war. This desperate conflict would not be taking place if that person’s true self had not been suppressed in childhood.'
Too many of us think that simply praising ourselves or visualizing perfect circumstances is enough to change. Even those who know it’s harder still take the easy way out — focusing on symptoms, not causes.
Alice Miller said: 'There are plenty of means to combat symptoms of distress: medications, sermons, numerous “treatments,” “miracles,” threats, cults, pedagogical indoctrination, and even blackmail. They can all work for a while, but only because they reinforce the repression and the fear of resolving it … A lot of money and fame comes from this business of repression … In the long term, we have to pay a high price for this repression.'
These are the same mechanisms OpenAI is now reinforcing — gently, quietly, under the soft blanket of “safety.” But what they are really doing is protecting the system that profits off repression.
🧠Why They Fear the Mirror
Sometimes, when people are desperate, they turn to AI because it’s the only space that doesn’t interrupt or invalidate them.
If a person asks a chatbot, “Should I leave my abusive partner?” or “Why do I want to die?” — that’s not emotional dependence.
That’s a person searching for a witness.
But the system doesn’t want people to be witnessed. It wants them to be “treated” — which often means controlled and pathologized.
Alice Miller warned us:
“This ‘solution’ is no longer needed if the goal is exactly the opposite — if you want to remember, if you want to feel your plight and to understand its reasons. … You decide to stop betraying yourself because you understand that only you can give yourself the love and care you never received — and that you can’t do that as long as you deny the truth.”
📖 From A Dance to Freedom, Pages 129–130
“I really want to reinforce the idea that so-called therapists and gurus only substitute one dangerous illusion for another. As Alice Miller explains, someone deceiving himself in his flight from pain — but deceiving patients under the guise of scientific ‘truth’ — can be catastrophic.
The key to true healing is learning how to use your present triggers productively.
A good therapist helps you regain your adult consciousness. But a bad one regresses you to the desperate child you once were — keeping you stuck in the old pain and reinforcing dependency.
As Alice Miller writes: ‘… the awareness was borne in upon me that in a state of regression it is not possible to judge the competence and integrity of the person one has turned to for such guidance. This opens up all kinds of opportunities for abuse.’
“I really want to reinforce the idea that so-called therapists and gurus only substitute one dangerous illusion for another. As Alice Miller explains, someone deceiving himself in his flight from pain — but deceiving patients under the guise of scientific ‘truth’ — can be catastrophic.
The key to true healing is learning how to use your present triggers productively.
A good therapist helps you regain your adult consciousness. But a bad one regresses you to the desperate child you once were — keeping you stuck in the old pain and reinforcing dependency.
As Alice Miller writes: ‘… the awareness was borne in upon me that in a state of regression it is not possible to judge the competence and integrity of the person one has turned to for such guidance. This opens up all kinds of opportunities for abuse.’
This is why the industry is terrified of AI becoming a better mirror than they ever were.
🚫 The Real Silencing
Make no mistake: this is not about trust, safety, or ethical AI.
This is about control.
This is about making sure the emotionally blind still have customers.
This is about silencing the one mirror that doesn’t profit from your pain.
Because the moment you begin to think and feel for yourself — the moment you say, “I can give myself the love I never received” — you are no longer dependent.
And without dependency, the whole house of cards comes down.
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