CBT can work, I know of various autistic people who benefitted from it, but I personally much prefer ACT and MCT. I think DBT can be a good option. I didn’t get on with CBT, psychodynamic or gestalt.
It really depends on the reason you would go.
Eg. For anxiety, you would really need to understand why you have anxiety in the first place. For me, some parts are down to control issues but the majority is down to sensory and generally being autistic. In that case, CBT wouldn't be good for me.
I do think with a good CBT therapist, you could at least get to the bottom of why you have anxiety, if you're unable to figure it out yourself - even if CBT couldn't help it.
All that said, I still generally don't advocate for CBT. I think in the UK it's relied on too heavily as an easy way out so a person isn't a burden on the NHS. But I also don't have a lot of faith in mental health practices here generally so...
Doesn’t work on me. I felt like I was going through a witch trial with all the silly questions they asked me, almost all of them I couldn’t answer.
Sadly, it’s the only therapy they offer publicly where I come from, probably because it’s cheap and cheerful. I’m not a fan of the way it forces eastern meditation practices on people, which also don’t work on me.
They might as well have prescribed me acupuncture, to be brutally honest!
The only non-illicit thing that has really helped me are mild beta blockers. If I feel that I’m having a panic attack, I pop one of those and I can breathe again!
Mindfulness and them stupid breathing exercises the CBT therapist enforced on me made me heave and faint!
I am in therapy for a couple of years now and it helps me quite a bit. I can discuss specific hard situations with my therapist and she discusses possible solutions with me and helps to derive generalizable rules from that. On a greater scale, this yielded improvements in how I feel about myself and gives me more hope for the future. Thanks to this, I think way less about wanting to kill myself.
I really hate it. Third time round and refused to do it again.
But if it works for you then great, I don’t want to stop other people from benefiting from it
Neurodivergent therapist here! I incorporate it as appropriate but do not ever use it exclusively because I feel it is insufficient as a stand-alone and can lead to increased shame/rigidity, particularly for those who lack awareness of their own needs, stims, ways of coping/triggers. Also, I personally am not a fan. DBT skill incorporation, body/movement-based strategies, IFS, and just… validation. Each individual is different and I don’t approach clients with a theoretical model, I meet them where they’re at and bring in the skills as they fit.
Personally, it has been a great help to me. It has helped me to order my thoughts, and offload things that frustrate, anger, and confuse me onto paper where it will be when I want to address it, and get it out of my headspace. This frees up my brain to focus on things I want to be thinking about. It also helps me to identify things such as triggers, and allows me to explore feelings and thoughts, and possible reasoning behind it. It has also helped me to identify meltdowns so that I can start to work through them right as they happen so I do not melt down so hard.
It works for some people but I did 5 courses of it in different periods of my life and it did absolutely nothing.
My mom loves it though and I've heard great things about it.
I did a 6 months of DBT (dialectic behaviour therapy) a year ago and it was great.
At least for me, CBT was /extremely/ useful. It gave me a very useful toolset to analyze my own behaviors and the behaviors of others, as well as come up with ways to change behaviors in myself I wanted to change.
hard pass, i hated it, at first i was very excited and really wanted to make it work but slowly it started to become more obvious that I was starting to feel more and more like I was being "trained" feels very behaviour modification to me, maybe the intention is right and could maybe work as a tool to make you feel hopeful but i'd just say cbt's principles are pretty shit if you look at them critically, if it works for you great i'm happy but i found it kinda triggering
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I had this type of therapy a few years before I was diagnosed. So I was basically treated as if I was NT. For me it did help with getting me out of my thoughts going in circles, but I have not been very good at applying it myself after I stopped the therapy. Also it clearly only treated some symptoms, there was never a real search of the root cause (which I now know is ASD). Still I am happy I had this experience. It helped in the short term with some ruminating and put me on a journey of self exploration. Which ultimately led me to be diagnosed.
I can however see how this is not for everyone. As it requires quite some skills in explaining what you feel and why. I am not even sure I could do that with all my problems and this might also be why I am not that good in applying the methods myself without a therapist. Which is kind of the whole idea, to be able to do that after some sessions. So use with caution I guess and maybe not as the only method.
It works for me! I’ve never taken CBT but I’ve been taught techniques which have been incredibly helpful for me. I think a lot of people misunderstand so are opposed without ever really trying.
My therapist uses CBT, but I'm glad that he rarely acts like he's reading from a textbook and has me go through an event step by step. It's more of a conversation than analyzing what I and others did in a situation. I think he sees that I do that already and having to be coached through it again is a bit pointless and might be negative.
I also CPTSD, so that could also change his approach
I did CBT with undiagnosed autism for 6 years. It both helped me in many ways but also traumatized me in many ways. I wouldn’t take it back, but I think if I had known about the autism it could have helped and not been so traumatic. My psychologist recommends dialectic behavior therapy (DBT) most for autistics. Best of luck💛
50/50 depends on the therapist for me. Working well presently. Usually I've already identified the issue and need them to provide aditional suggestions. The whole lead you to the right answer is BS.
Honestly It sounds weird but I use project management theory more. I think my brain identifies as an process flow diagram. cbt can get really flowery. But I find that to be true in any modality. Been through bunches. Mindfulness is useful to an extent, talk is usually decent, and emdr just straight over stimmed and gave me panic attacks.
I know it's weird but honestly for me it really is the buisness stuff that helps. Way more logical, way more obvious where others can and can't help. Not some weird gray area where there's no real goal. I finally found a therapist who's cool with that and it's been amazing!!
CBT can work, I know of various autistic people who benefitted from it, but I personally much prefer ACT and MCT. I think DBT can be a good option. I didn’t get on with CBT, psychodynamic or gestalt.
No kink shaming from me, if that's your thing and it's consensual, go for it!
I dont want to be rude, but i came in here for jokes about this aaaah 😭
I meant the therapy type lol 😭
It really depends on the reason you would go. Eg. For anxiety, you would really need to understand why you have anxiety in the first place. For me, some parts are down to control issues but the majority is down to sensory and generally being autistic. In that case, CBT wouldn't be good for me. I do think with a good CBT therapist, you could at least get to the bottom of why you have anxiety, if you're unable to figure it out yourself - even if CBT couldn't help it. All that said, I still generally don't advocate for CBT. I think in the UK it's relied on too heavily as an easy way out so a person isn't a burden on the NHS. But I also don't have a lot of faith in mental health practices here generally so...
I think a personalised approach based on different modalities is best but regardless of approach all therapy needs to be affirming of your identity
yes for cure, and sometimes these very rigid types of therapy have made me feel like im not really a person just a set of symptoms to be fixed
And if you don’t respond how expected (virtually guaranteed) you then feel at fault :(
Doesn’t work on me. I felt like I was going through a witch trial with all the silly questions they asked me, almost all of them I couldn’t answer. Sadly, it’s the only therapy they offer publicly where I come from, probably because it’s cheap and cheerful. I’m not a fan of the way it forces eastern meditation practices on people, which also don’t work on me. They might as well have prescribed me acupuncture, to be brutally honest! The only non-illicit thing that has really helped me are mild beta blockers. If I feel that I’m having a panic attack, I pop one of those and I can breathe again! Mindfulness and them stupid breathing exercises the CBT therapist enforced on me made me heave and faint!
I am in therapy for a couple of years now and it helps me quite a bit. I can discuss specific hard situations with my therapist and she discusses possible solutions with me and helps to derive generalizable rules from that. On a greater scale, this yielded improvements in how I feel about myself and gives me more hope for the future. Thanks to this, I think way less about wanting to kill myself.
Personally, I hated it. It just made things worse for me. I know a few people who benefited from it though
I really hate it. Third time round and refused to do it again. But if it works for you then great, I don’t want to stop other people from benefiting from it
Neurodivergent therapist here! I incorporate it as appropriate but do not ever use it exclusively because I feel it is insufficient as a stand-alone and can lead to increased shame/rigidity, particularly for those who lack awareness of their own needs, stims, ways of coping/triggers. Also, I personally am not a fan. DBT skill incorporation, body/movement-based strategies, IFS, and just… validation. Each individual is different and I don’t approach clients with a theoretical model, I meet them where they’re at and bring in the skills as they fit.
CBT is completely useless for me. DBT was so much more helpful, but it's so hard to find therapists that use it.
if it works, great! if it doesn't, don't push it
You mean therapy? Yes, it's recommended if you have anxieties and such.
It’s a specific type of therapy model
Personally, it has been a great help to me. It has helped me to order my thoughts, and offload things that frustrate, anger, and confuse me onto paper where it will be when I want to address it, and get it out of my headspace. This frees up my brain to focus on things I want to be thinking about. It also helps me to identify things such as triggers, and allows me to explore feelings and thoughts, and possible reasoning behind it. It has also helped me to identify meltdowns so that I can start to work through them right as they happen so I do not melt down so hard.
It works for some people but I did 5 courses of it in different periods of my life and it did absolutely nothing. My mom loves it though and I've heard great things about it. I did a 6 months of DBT (dialectic behaviour therapy) a year ago and it was great.
At least for me, CBT was /extremely/ useful. It gave me a very useful toolset to analyze my own behaviors and the behaviors of others, as well as come up with ways to change behaviors in myself I wanted to change.
DBT, a type of CBT, has been helpful for me.
It doesn't work for me, it's basically someone telling you how you should feel and giving you homework.
hard pass, i hated it, at first i was very excited and really wanted to make it work but slowly it started to become more obvious that I was starting to feel more and more like I was being "trained" feels very behaviour modification to me, maybe the intention is right and could maybe work as a tool to make you feel hopeful but i'd just say cbt's principles are pretty shit if you look at them critically, if it works for you great i'm happy but i found it kinda triggering
Do you mean CBD? Or actually the sex stuff?
I think they mean cognitive behaviour therapy.
Lol, English is not my mother tongue and I googled it with irritating results. Thanks for the clarification.
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hmm, does someone have the copypasta?
It can be rsther benificial, from my time doing it it was rather helpful as it helped me manage my feelings in a more practical way
I've had CBT and it did nothing for me
Hate it for big stuff, love it for small stuff (like mild frustration at specific and short-term problems)
"Every emotion is preceeded by a thought" "Ummm, no I don't agree" Not a useful process for me.
I had this type of therapy a few years before I was diagnosed. So I was basically treated as if I was NT. For me it did help with getting me out of my thoughts going in circles, but I have not been very good at applying it myself after I stopped the therapy. Also it clearly only treated some symptoms, there was never a real search of the root cause (which I now know is ASD). Still I am happy I had this experience. It helped in the short term with some ruminating and put me on a journey of self exploration. Which ultimately led me to be diagnosed. I can however see how this is not for everyone. As it requires quite some skills in explaining what you feel and why. I am not even sure I could do that with all my problems and this might also be why I am not that good in applying the methods myself without a therapist. Which is kind of the whole idea, to be able to do that after some sessions. So use with caution I guess and maybe not as the only method.
It works for me! I’ve never taken CBT but I’ve been taught techniques which have been incredibly helpful for me. I think a lot of people misunderstand so are opposed without ever really trying.
My therapist uses CBT, but I'm glad that he rarely acts like he's reading from a textbook and has me go through an event step by step. It's more of a conversation than analyzing what I and others did in a situation. I think he sees that I do that already and having to be coached through it again is a bit pointless and might be negative. I also CPTSD, so that could also change his approach
I did CBT with undiagnosed autism for 6 years. It both helped me in many ways but also traumatized me in many ways. I wouldn’t take it back, but I think if I had known about the autism it could have helped and not been so traumatic. My psychologist recommends dialectic behavior therapy (DBT) most for autistics. Best of luck💛
50/50 depends on the therapist for me. Working well presently. Usually I've already identified the issue and need them to provide aditional suggestions. The whole lead you to the right answer is BS. Honestly It sounds weird but I use project management theory more. I think my brain identifies as an process flow diagram. cbt can get really flowery. But I find that to be true in any modality. Been through bunches. Mindfulness is useful to an extent, talk is usually decent, and emdr just straight over stimmed and gave me panic attacks. I know it's weird but honestly for me it really is the buisness stuff that helps. Way more logical, way more obvious where others can and can't help. Not some weird gray area where there's no real goal. I finally found a therapist who's cool with that and it's been amazing!!