Cogs wrote:
MathGirl wrote:
My counsellor did CBT visually with me and it was very useful. I only get CBT for specific issues, though (mostly anxiety).
How did she do it?
We drew charts of situation - thought - feeling. It was still somewhat verbal, but she let me express my feelings more visually and nonverbally and then put whatever words she thought fit them best. Since the goal of CBT is to connect everything and make sense of it, the goal was still accomplished, even though the verbal part was difficult.
I think the helpfulness of CBT is going to depend on what kind of issues are targeted. It cannot address sensory issues; some reactions you have described earlier seem completely reasonable to me. I get CBT for my extreme perfectionism/OCD-like issues. For example, right now my anxiety is so bad that I get physically sick upon trying to study, because of emotional associations that I need to sort through with the help of a therapist. It's when I my feelings and thoughts get muddled and when this starts seriously interfere with my everyday functioning that I seek CBT. Although this stuff may be connected to autism somehow, it is not a direct link.
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Leading a double life and loving it (but exhausted).
Likely ADHD instead of what I've been diagnosed with before.
16 Jun 2013, 5:34 pm
