AI & I · Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Katie Parrott discusses how AI has become a powerful supportive technology, helping her manage bipolar disorder and anxiety. She shares how AI tools have reduced friction in her daily life, from making medical appointments to managing her inbox, allowing her to focus on more impactful work.
“AI is just as powerful as a supportive technology. So I have bipolar disorder. I experience spikes of like high energy and honestly frankly I spend a lot more time in really lows of depression and what I found is that AI kind of reduces friction in my life in a way that like makes it easier for me to person. It makes it easier for me to work, it makes it easier for me to you know move through my day -to -day life.”
“I put off making a primary care physician appointment for like... three years and then I realized I could simply tell Codex to go find primary care physicians near me that take my insurance and are accepting new patients. And it went off and found me someone and I booked an appointment. And that's something that I would never have done. I would have just kept procrastinating on it infinitely because of the way my brain works and AI was able to help me over that hump and it's done that over and over again.”
“So my inbox anxiety has been completely resolved. And I've just seen a lot of other ways that AI supports me and allows me to work better, not just in terms of using it for the output, but using it for everything that surrounds the output.”