r/CBT

Is it possible that therapeutic advice simply is not working? Despite sounding very nice and wise. You try to follow the advice and it is only detrimental to you. I feel like therapist either gave me straight out bad advice or just created a mess in my head.

I feel like I always start fawning over any therapist and they just use it to get paid easily. With my current therapist I recently started to feel like I get same AI answers for everything. I can ask chat GPT and it responds me with more thoughtful answers. (I already tryed two therapists, it was always the same)

Advice like:
Just unmask as autistic person, be yourself more!! => you just get bullied
Talk with people about your issues! => they mostly recommend stuff I already considered or just talk nonsense, smalltalk and such
Spend more time with people and you will feel better! => just makes me exhausted, lonely and miserable
I think you may have PTSD, narcissism, be sociopath, although I would never say, you are narcissist, sociopath => I did several psychological and personality tests, all came out as aspergers and minor personality developmental issues caused by bullying by peers and life with aspergers

Hi, title says it, I'm looking for some good, well-documented podcasts to learn my way through this stuff. Any recommendations ?

A post to therapists and clients;

I had been going to a counselor before and she was also using the CBT approach.

All it did was give me intense positive limerence to her and anxiety surges because it was getting out of my control. I was just going there to just fulfill the therapy schedules, I literally forgot why am I even going there instead of that?

Now, I am going to another therapist who is also doing CBT and recently she told me she will use a trauma-infromed approach as well with CBT to treat me.

It is also not really helping, I mean, I am alone and I just figure things out by myself because I have long delays, sometimes a month or five-six weeks in between sessions. I also do not talk there, so I write a note when I am regulated beforehand and just hand my phone to her to read.

So.., is this how it's supposed to go, or should I just quit? I have been meaning to quit for quite some time, but I haven't quit yet because I think I should keep on waiting. But, I do not know, it's not actively helping.

Yes, that therapist gives me homework, but I am quite self-aware and the things she's given me for homework, I have already done them before. Like; knowing what ways help me regulate/reset myself etc.