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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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  • Hi,  I'm really fascinated by how people have responded to therapy.  I am a 42 year old woman diagnosed last year with aspergers.  I've just fired my therapist who is reconnended by NAS as an autism specialist.  She is the second one I've found to be utterly useless.  I've had 20 sessions.  Apparently she seems to think that just talking is the answer to my problems.  I'm wondering, what input have your therapists had?  It seems from the top of the link that they have tried to instigate some form of change.  Has this helped in anyway, at all?  I've explained to the one I've fired that talking has no benefit to me I have insight into my problems but don't know how to resolve them.  Is this common?

    I have also found that she has absolutely no way of being able to relate to how devastated I feel about the diagnosis which has led me to severe depression.  She cannot even understand how it has affected my self confidence, ruined my chance of ever finding a job again etc.  and, apparently she is an "expert" in adult autism! 

    has anyone found any form of therapy effective?

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  • Hi,  I'm really fascinated by how people have responded to therapy.  I am a 42 year old woman diagnosed last year with aspergers.  I've just fired my therapist who is reconnended by NAS as an autism specialist.  She is the second one I've found to be utterly useless.  I've had 20 sessions.  Apparently she seems to think that just talking is the answer to my problems.  I'm wondering, what input have your therapists had?  It seems from the top of the link that they have tried to instigate some form of change.  Has this helped in anyway, at all?  I've explained to the one I've fired that talking has no benefit to me I have insight into my problems but don't know how to resolve them.  Is this common?

    I have also found that she has absolutely no way of being able to relate to how devastated I feel about the diagnosis which has led me to severe depression.  She cannot even understand how it has affected my self confidence, ruined my chance of ever finding a job again etc.  and, apparently she is an "expert" in adult autism! 

    has anyone found any form of therapy effective?

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