You pour your heart out to what feels like a safe, empathetic ear-a therapy bot that's always there, never judges, and never forgets. But behind the soothing words lies a billion-dollar question: Who owns your pain once you've given it away? In this episode, we pull back the curtain on the hidden economy of AI therapy-where your midnight confessions are scraped, anonymised, and fed into machines that sell the illusion of empathy. From Henrietta Lacks' stolen cells to modern data-mining chatbots, we trace the unsettling lineage of exploitation, uncover the platforms turning trauma into training sets, and ask: are you the client, or the product?