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  1. ........I can relate to that ..... good luck
  2. .....I have been thinking a bit ,ore about what you said. I don't think I want to change my behaviour, I just want a bit of help coping with things. :-)
  3. I agree. Maybe that is the fundamental problem with CBT and why it will not be effective for me.
  4. Hey Aeolienne, from your previous thread it seems like CBT doesn't work for you - why would you have it for PTSD? (other than giving it another go). My Dr said she had nothing other than CBT to offer. i have spoken with people at my AS support group and none of them have had success with CBT. I think it is maybe OK for thinking through things and developing strategies but it really depends on the therpaists knowledge of AS. It often seems to be very rigid NT focused and in my case the communication was not successful. For me it seems that CBT is based on changing yourself because you are wrong/ abnormal - it doesn't accept AS ways of thinking as normal.
  5. Knowing Me, Knowing Autism Duration:28 minutes First broadcast:Monday 06 May 2013 This programme follows Robyn through her personal and professional life; juggling the demands of her own condition with her obligations to others; giving insight into autism through the people who experience it first hand. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s83bx
  6. Hi lupus, thanks for your input. :-) I am no longer having CBT at the mo. I really didn't like the experience. The therapist did try to find me someone else with some AS experience but the only people in the area (NHS) had there remit changed a few years ago so that they now only accept learning disability and no longer Aspergers. So the way it is - CBT with non AS experience or nothing - :-(. I have to phone the therapist again when I speak to OH in work - I have been off work as I could not cope and the therapist thinks that she can help me go back to work. I really don't feel at all understood and don't understand myself. I feel very low just now and am really struggling with where I live too. I just want someone to help me understand and then help me come up with some practical strategies. The CBT therapist just jumps to conclusions and gets carried away with things that arn't quite right - even though they do make some sense (especially to her). It all moves fast. I don't think she understands how difficult the whole process is just going to see her. Its really hard communicating things to anyone. I just want someone to step in and help me - but I don't know what that would be, who it would be or how to go about that. I have to see my Dr next week but am at a loss what to say.
  7. indiscreet, thanks for your post, thats reasuring to hear your similar views and experience. I hope it all works out for you too. :-) Its nice to communicate with people on this forum who are on a similar wavelength....... not feeling like I have to justify and explain yourself from scratch all the time :-)
  8. Thanks Snoing and tmob88, i really appreciate your thoughts and insight. My girlfirend spoke to the therapise and I think that was really helpful. The therapist is now contacting 'Secondary Care Psychology' to see if there is someone who has more specific AS experience. i think that continuing the CBT would have been really difficult an I agree with you Tmob88 that 'it is so important that the client and therapist or on the same page'. What you said about 'not wanting to start all over again' Shnoing is deffinately something that I felt. People are put on a waiting list and there are few services anyhow so it feels wrong to then stop the therapy. Also any time and effort invested is wasted too. It is hard work trying to explain your self with someone new. I also didn't want to just 'give up'. hopefuly though I am going in the right direction now. I will have more info on Monday. :-)
  9. I am just back from my third CBT session. I am feeling very stressed and worried by it and am not exactly sure what happened. I presented the therapist with a typed document trying to explain what I was thinking. It included: My concerns that I may be misunderstood or I might misunderstand. That I am worried she will be offended by my input and feel I am criticising her. Questions about her abilities and previous experience/knowledge of Asperger's. Questioning the purpose of the CBT and what can be achieved. Possible strategies regarding email, written summaries and structure of the sessions. Why CBT may have failed previously. Objectives such as creating a 'personal profile' and 'list of current concerns' (I am working on these now). I tried to explain: how I wanted to get the most out of the sessions. that I felt I was not able to express myself very well. that I was frustrated by the Neurotypical perspective of the sessions. Anyway I am not sure if I offended the therapist or not. The outcome is that she is going to contact her clinical lead to see if there is another service that might be more useful or failing that maybe discharge me. I am not sure that I actually said I wanted to be discharged? Maybe thats the impression I gave? I suppose it isn't the most suitable support but I don't have anything else. Maybe I am expecting the wrong thing from CBT? I just wanted to discuss the points I had raised. I just think that the communication between us doesn't work properly as we are on different wavelengths somehow. My girlfriend is going to phone her up and then hopefully tell me what happened.
  10. Hi indiscreet, I agree that the therapist should concentrate 'on helping the patient to find ways of living with the basic problem rather than attempting to eradicate it.' The causes of my depression and anxieties are more circumstantial rather than biological for example - the root lies with my Aspergers Syndrome. i think what would be most helpful for me would be practical support with regard to making a practical difference in my life. Which in turn would reduce my depression and anxiety . Maybe help with changing my job and coping with noise or strategies around dealing with people. If the NHS is spending money on CBT then why not on more useful support instead? i sometimes think that what would be most helpful for some AS people would be an advocate to just help them deal with life, as opposed to 'talking about their feelings'.
  11. I just found this: 'A study published in 2012 evaluated the cognitive skills of children with ASD and compared them to those of typical children. The children with ASD had the skills required for CBT in almost every instance. They were able to distinguish thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and to work on altering their thoughts. Their only area of difficulty was in recognizing emotions.' Lickel, A., Maclean, W. E.,Jr, Blakeley-Smith, A., & Hepburn, S. (2012). Assessment of the prerequisite skills for cognitive behavioral therapy in children with and without autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(6), 992-1000.
  12. Thanks all, The general consensus is that CBT can be useful then. I just don't see how it can work for me though? I am not sure how I could bring up with the counsellor the subject of her accessing AS/CBT resources. She might get offended?
  13. Hi, I was wondering if anyone has had CBT? I have just started it (for the second time) for anxiety and depression. I have trouble with new situations, change, noise, people and these definately contribute to my anxiety and depression. The problem with CBT is that it does not really change the causes - just how I think about them..... I want to give CBT the best shot but as the practitioner (I believe) has little knowledge of Aspergers I think it might not be successful. I am a little unsure what we are trying to do and achieve also. Has anyone any ideas of how I can make the seesions more succesful? How has it worked for you?
  14. ...it took me ages to think of a name for this forum....everything I thought of seemed to imply meaning that wasn't there...... so I came up with 'object' (hopefully a pretty neutral word with few conetations)
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