You know I never made the connection that confessionals are "free" therapy or emotional unloading. As a kid I was just trained that it was just an awkward duty. That's a good point. I mean as a member of a church you're expected to tithe or donate, but compared to therapy bills for most folks that's a cheap deal.
I went to this weird Asian soccer mom therapist a couple times. Had almost the exact opposite experience. She told me to cool it with the racism, then brought up my sister getting raped by niggers as a teen on my way out the door.
Everything else she talked about was weird childish therapy coping tactics. Like “imagine your dog as your super hero that can protect you from mean people”.
Of the title: I've often thought the guilt of sin causes a lot of "mental illness"(among the non-religious who are more likely to be mentally ill, to not believe sins are sins and so they commit them, and who don't confess such sins)
Of the vid: ChatGPT can affirm my delusions "for free"