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Depression counselling

Abathur

I am an adult male, and have Aspergers Syndrome. I am currently suffering depression.  I have had two lots of CBT but I do not think it has helped much. What I think I need is a counsellor on a one to one basis to just talk to.

I work part time, as at present that is all I can manage. Can anyone advise me as to where would be a good place to start to find specialist counsellors?

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    NAS7937 said:

    Many assessors will read the 'triad of impairments' on Wikipedia and presume you have these, that they describe you and that they are at the root of the problem. The triad is a poor description of autistic people written by those wanting only to pathologise us.

    I'll readily agree that the triad is not a good way of describing what people with autism are like. It does not describe their strengths or their abilities and it does not give any sort of impression of what to expect when you meet an autistic person. Autistic people are often identified by their differences - between each other and between them and non autisitc people hence the phrase "when you have met one person with autism you have just met one person with autism".

    Equally, you don't define a one legged person by their one leggedness - the one leggedness does not describe their knowledge or state of mind or a thousand other things about them. However, you do not ignore the absence of the leg, you do not imagine that it is irrelevant - actually it would be rude to pay no attention to it. I think we do all have a fundamental problem and I do not think it is a good idea, or healthy for us, to ignore that issue.

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    NAS7937 said:

    Many assessors will read the 'triad of impairments' on Wikipedia and presume you have these, that they describe you and that they are at the root of the problem. The triad is a poor description of autistic people written by those wanting only to pathologise us.

    I'll readily agree that the triad is not a good way of describing what people with autism are like. It does not describe their strengths or their abilities and it does not give any sort of impression of what to expect when you meet an autistic person. Autistic people are often identified by their differences - between each other and between them and non autisitc people hence the phrase "when you have met one person with autism you have just met one person with autism".

    Equally, you don't define a one legged person by their one leggedness - the one leggedness does not describe their knowledge or state of mind or a thousand other things about them. However, you do not ignore the absence of the leg, you do not imagine that it is irrelevant - actually it would be rude to pay no attention to it. I think we do all have a fundamental problem and I do not think it is a good idea, or healthy for us, to ignore that issue.

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