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CBT experience went really bad :-(

Phased

I didn't receive the link for my 1st CBT session as promised so e-mailed and 'phoned and was promised it would arrive 3 days before

it didn't - no record in e-mail

no record of any invite in my "teams" for it being sent

so I contacted and alerted them to this and requested they send the appointment to my e-mail address

It was promised to be sent 15 minutes before

I replied and said send it to my e-mail address

it didn't arrive

eventually it is sent 3 minutes after the appointment started.

so I figure OK that's not a problem

meeting goes bad...  I reckon that I was trying to be too proactive - probably trying to take charge :-(

Eventually in the meeting I asked the therapist whether they had sent invite to someone else.

They responded by asking me whether I was accusing them of sending it to someone else.

I said no - I was asking them whether they had.  I explained that I needed to be able to trust them.

Asked then how many autistic people they had treated - they said in the hundreds.

At which point the therapist said that they were uncomfortable and they were terminating the consultation and would be contacting their manager about it.

What I would appear to have done is inadvertently upset someone (pretty obvious that I was doing so already by their reaction to my behaviour in my asking them what they understood about autism ( no clear indication to me that they understood concept of alexithymia and that autism constitutes a specific part of the spectrum and wanting to stick to their "script" e.g. not flexible to me ironically.)

Anyway I'm distressed reckon they are distressed.

Wnat next?

Ideas anyone please

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  • I think everbody would need more than 3 minutes after the session had started warning, suppose you had to arrange childcare, time off work or had to travel for a 30 mins? It sounds totally like it's thier mess up and they need to get their act together.

    There are some therapists who feel threatened by a client asking questions, but their job is to out you at ease in order for the therapy they offer to be of any use to you, especially at a first appointment. 

    I wonder what their ASC training is? Have any people with ASC been involved in formulating the training material?

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Thanks   good questions you raise too.   I am feeling validated by the comments in response to my post - have to admit I probably wound the clinician up just by me being me.  Funny how that doesn't happen so often on this chat site... :-)

  • in reply to Phased

    Someone working in mental health services should be used to dealing with awkward people, whether they're deliberately being awkward in a dumb insubordination way or because they feel awkward and most people do. There are ways of challenging awkwardness that don't involve being confrontational, also they know you're autistic, are you expected to be uninterrested in your own care?

    I get so fed up with clinicians of all tyes who think I should be grateful and accpet whatever they say at face value, often without listening to me first.It all just makes me think of that old joke, 'Whats the difference between God and a doctor? God dosen't think he can practice medicine!'

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Hehe Them being sh1t at their job maybe! thanks  

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