Does Cognitive-Behavior Therapy work for Aspies?

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Does anyone know?

it can, yes.

Probably... but that method is usually very COLD, and maybe that's what some aspies need. I have had some bad experiences with therapists using that method. It made me feel worse.

Depends for what.
I tried it for my social problems. It helped me get over my anxiety in social situations but it did not help me with social relatedness because social relatedness is not a deep psychological thing. So now I still cannot relate to people but at least I am not afraid of them so much and I am more willing to try to relate.

I know a man in his 50s who's soft-spoken but very extroverted, who's quite possibly an Aspie. He said that his psychiatrist did Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with him and that it worked for him.

I don't think that it would work for someone with my rebellious nature, though. We, as a whole, are each very different.

CBT is very effective for depression, especially in combination with medication.

I've had Cognitive Behavioural Therapy before with 2 different psychologists. It had both its positives and negatives. I felt as though it improved my confidence and interpretations of social situations and the therapy also made me feel very bad at the same time.

I think exposure therapy works very well.

You see/feel/hear/taste/touch/think/sense that what you're afraid of until you're not afraid anymore. You don't really feel anything anymore.

Compartmentalize? Numb?

That sounds like desensitization.

I dont think it works much for me. I will still have the underlying problem. I'd just be masking the problem by attempting.

I know what is wrong, I know how to make it better. I just lack the drive.

I was told by my psychologist to "speak out more, to try to make myself heard. Ask questions." I attempted that but I still do it in my own terms (one-on-one and never one-to whole).

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy has transformed my grandsons from suicidal, melt down misfits to self contained boys who are proud to be aspies. I cannot believe the change in them in the last 12 months.

It has also made my NT daughter self assured and happy.

IT's helped me out of severe, cry-everyday-to-sleep depression but it hasn't changed my core problems. There's a point where it works to look at things logically but then you need a boost to the next level.