I wish I could say therapy worked for me, I really wanted it to work, but maybe I was not the right time to do it or it just doesn’t work for me and made me feel far worse… I really tried to hold on to my job through CBT, it just. made me miserable.
edit: I just removed the autistic bit out of the title because I guess it might not work for others as well.
Therapy is like any other treatment - works for some but not others. I totally get there is a slight unconscious bias within patient groups that is if didn’t work it means you didn’t try hard enough. This is of course not true
I tried EMDR online as well with the therapist, I completely failed thats when she suggested I might be autistic and then I’ve just been forgettoin about no more therapY.
My job makes me miserable all the time. If it was fun I would have to pay them to do it. They pay me to do it because no rational person would willingly deal with my clients for free. Of course work makes you unhappy.
I do CBT exercises daily. It is one of the most effective tools in my kit, but only with ongoing work on it. I stop doing CBT and I put myself at risk of losing insight. CBT is what allows me to tolerate the level of positive symptoms I have.
I have found someone to talk to weekly there is nothing I cant talk about. Nothing is off limits. It has helped me stabilize and focus on doing things and accomplishing things.