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CBT experiences

Hapless

Hapless

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Hello,
My report recommends I seek Cognitive behavioral therapy, I would be grateful if anyone here would like to share their experience.
Did it help you?
Would you recommend it?
Cheers.
 
Seladon

Thread 'Efficacy of CBT for ASD?'

Looking for studies and professional views, as well as anecdata from patients.

How do we know it does us any good? Has it been tested thoroughly? How has it been adapted for different needs and neurotypes? And is it suitable for all levels and types of us? (i.e. children, women, high vs. low function) Why is it assumed that this therapy can be of significant help to ASD people?

Tony Attwood seems to be split on the matter, conceding that it can be helpful in some cases, but has serious limitations for us when it comes to burnout & overload, cognitive inflexibility, sensory...
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Tired said:
Seladon

Thread 'Efficacy of CBT for ASD?'

Looking for studies and professional views, as well as anecdata from patients.

How do we know it does us any good? Has it been tested thoroughly? How has it been adapted for different needs and neurotypes? And is it suitable for all levels and types of us? (i.e. children, women, high vs. low function) Why is it assumed that this therapy can be of significant help to ASD people?

Tony Attwood seems to be split on the matter, conceding that it can be helpful in some cases, but has serious limitations for us when it comes to burnout & overload, cognitive inflexibility, sensory...
  • Like


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Thanks for sharing, I appreciate your response, but I’m really looking for more recent experiences with CBT as an autistic person.
 
CBT is rated the most effective treatment for mental health disorders. It's been shown to help people overcome mental conditions that sometimes lasted for decades in about 8 to 12 weeks.
 
Hapless said:
Did it help you?
Would you recommend it?
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I use CBT, DBT, and ACT together. Very helpful and I credit them with helping me handle stress better and increasing my level of function overall. I tend to do workbooks, own over 100 now. I photograph (or screenshot) the exercises and keep them in a binder so I can do them over and over. I do not write in my books (the paper ones).

Speaking as someone with Asperger's (grudgingly relabeled as ASD1), paranoid schizophrenia, chronic depression, and alcoholism (sober 34 years). So that's what I'm using that blue plate combo to manage in addition to the perfunctory meds.
 
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