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I haven't said this in years, but please would you help with my (CBT) homework?

felineaut

I am participating in CBT to help me learn new ways to manage myself in challenging situations. My therapist/practitioner/tutor suggested we each seek answers to questions about a hypothetical scenario. I hope it's ok to post this here, I wondered if there's anyone with a few minutes to spare who wouldn't mind sharing their thoughts.

Many thanks for reading and many more if you are able to answer - completely understand that everyone's busy. I am happy to update when we've compared answers to see how mental health professionals differ from any answers I receive if anyone has any interest.

The Situation:

(From the perspective of a car driver, imagined or real)

If you were stopped in a parking space to drop someone off and someone pulled up alongside and became confrontational about you being there, got out of their car and started shouting and taking your registration number:

1) How would you feel? 

2) What would you do?

3) Is it unreasonable to feel helpless and upset?

4) How would you 'come down' from that?

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    Not for the first time on this forum: I'll take a different view!

    TA and CBT share some common ideas.

    No matter how hard wired we are with our ASC we also have ability to think about situations and to make choices about how we react. Thinking and choosing can involve challenging your instinctive reactions. You have learnt to control your impulse to cross the road without thinking because you have learnt that stepping into a road with traffic is dangerous. You can do a similar thing in everyday situations like the one in your homework.

    Choice 1: Choose whether you want to start yelling back at the other driver or stop and think

    Choice 2: Choose whether you think it possible that you did something that annoyed the other driver

    Choice 3: Decide if you want to apologise even if you don't think that you did something wrong.

    etc

    CBT doesn't work for everyone but it does work for some people. It has more evidence of efficacy behind it than many other therapies.

    It's bound to attract people that don't know what they are doing. This doesn't mean that everyone who is practicing as a therapist is a charlatan. Challenge yourself to make a choice about this! Decide whether it is reasonable to dismiss the idea of CBT without giving it a chance.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    Not for the first time on this forum: I'll take a different view!

    TA and CBT share some common ideas.

    No matter how hard wired we are with our ASC we also have ability to think about situations and to make choices about how we react. Thinking and choosing can involve challenging your instinctive reactions. You have learnt to control your impulse to cross the road without thinking because you have learnt that stepping into a road with traffic is dangerous. You can do a similar thing in everyday situations like the one in your homework.

    Choice 1: Choose whether you want to start yelling back at the other driver or stop and think

    Choice 2: Choose whether you think it possible that you did something that annoyed the other driver

    Choice 3: Decide if you want to apologise even if you don't think that you did something wrong.

    etc

    CBT doesn't work for everyone but it does work for some people. It has more evidence of efficacy behind it than many other therapies.

    It's bound to attract people that don't know what they are doing. This doesn't mean that everyone who is practicing as a therapist is a charlatan. Challenge yourself to make a choice about this! Decide whether it is reasonable to dismiss the idea of CBT without giving it a chance.

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