Issues with Antidepressants

[jsilver256]

It's a completely different counseling style, one where the counselor is more of a teacher than a listener.

 

[Brian0787]

It's a completely different counseling style, one where the counselor is more of a teacher than a listener.

Ah ok! That would definitely be more of help then the therapy I've had so far.

 

[Boogs]

I would also suggest looking for therapy without any added aspect such as a religious side, or indeed any other group not strictly medical based. While for some being religious can provide succour and help to that person, ASD is strictly a medical condition and no rhetoric, religious, political, or any other type will help to explain it and understand it.
I'd keep the two as separate as possible, especially to start with.

 

[vergil96]

Is this counselor specializing in ASD?

Therapy for NTs is not very effective on ASDs. I was kicked around therapists for over an year, my husband kept forcing me to go. I coincidentally got assigned to one specializing in ASD and that was what led to the diagnosis.

Same

 

[vergil96]

It's a completely different counseling style, one where the counselor is more of a teacher than a listener.

In my case, it seems about communication style. I'm much more direct than therapy for NT people seems to assume and not focused on portraying images and conveying meanings with my behaviour, my motivations are much more immediate and direct. You won't catch me buying an expensive car in order to seem rich, for example, or engaging in counterfactual flattery in order to make someone like me. In my opinion, honesty is the root of friendship.