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CBT

MiniBluberryMuffin

Ello

Has anyone received cbt adapted to the challenges autistic people face? If so, what did you cover? The psychiatrist at the autism team said I'll benefit from it

I went under a mental health service and they didn't send me to a therapy team. They said the autism team offering this form of cbt would deal with my mental health (ocd and trauma). The autism team said they don't deal with mental health so I'm a bit confused

Thnxs

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  • I had lots (and lots...) of CBT before I was diagnosed. In hindsight I'm not sure if the psychologist thought I was Autistic or not... 

    I feel that what happened was that it was hardcore practice for trying to maintain a mask - ie learning how to fit in to a world which  takes me quite a bit of effort to fit in to. And obviously it didn't really 'take'.

    Having said that - had I gone in to it with a diagnosis and understood that this is just a method of learning to cope in a Neurotypical world, then maybe it might have been the ideal solution... If I had been able to go home and shut the door and admit that was just a show or a way of getting by in the outer world and didn't mean that I had to do it constantly.

    I once described it as 'driving lessons for the psyche'.

    Lots of trying to understand other people's motivations, why much of their behavior was not a reaction to me, how to jump out of repetitive thinking / loops, mindfulness+++.

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  • I had lots (and lots...) of CBT before I was diagnosed. In hindsight I'm not sure if the psychologist thought I was Autistic or not... 

    I feel that what happened was that it was hardcore practice for trying to maintain a mask - ie learning how to fit in to a world which  takes me quite a bit of effort to fit in to. And obviously it didn't really 'take'.

    Having said that - had I gone in to it with a diagnosis and understood that this is just a method of learning to cope in a Neurotypical world, then maybe it might have been the ideal solution... If I had been able to go home and shut the door and admit that was just a show or a way of getting by in the outer world and didn't mean that I had to do it constantly.

    I once described it as 'driving lessons for the psyche'.

    Lots of trying to understand other people's motivations, why much of their behavior was not a reaction to me, how to jump out of repetitive thinking / loops, mindfulness+++.

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