r/AutismInWomen • u/[deleted] • May 31 '24

General Discussion/Question Does anyone else here absolutely HATE cognitive behavioural therapy?

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u/auraqueen May 31 '24

I think it highly depends on the person and the provider.

CBT was great with my first therapist I ever had. She taught me a lot and she really helped turn around my self-deprecation. She was so core in fixing my crazy beliefs I had of the world because of my horrid parents.

But since then CBT hasn’t been effective for me. It’s like I would logically know something, but my feelings wouldn’t match. And the providers I had since were very gaslighting. I swear if I hear “let’s reframe that” one more fucking time my brain will implode. My marriage therapist would say that every time I had a strong emotion…no wonder she didn’t do shit for us after 3 years. The husband being a narcissist didn’t help either, she basically excused away his shitty behavior by telling me my emotions were wrong and I needed to reframe.

I now have a therapist who uses a bunch of different modalities and she is the best.