Asperger Syndrome Support Group

Asperger syndrome - also referred to as Asperger's syndrome, Asperger's, Aspergers or just AS - is one of five neurobiological pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and is characterized by deficiencies in social and communication skills, normal to above normal intelligence, and standard language development.

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some profesionals give no advice

harry3333
harry3333
for those of you seeing psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists etc
you need to know that some of them believe in not giving any direct advice

they wont tell you what you are doing wrong or what you should be doing

eventually this can lead you to think that they cant understand your problems and have no advice for you

it helps to ask "what am I doing wrong" and if no answer, dont bother going back
deleted_user
deleted_user
There are different techniques to therapy. Sometimes asking the question "What am I doing wrong?" might get the response, "What do YOU think you are doing wrong." May not mean the person can't help you (though this technique is annoying)...it might just mean they are trying to get you to problem-solve for yourself. But, definitely, if not comfortable with current therapist's style then find someone more suited to you.
mimestream
mimestream
Harry,
How about this technique?
How did that make you FEEL?

;)
deleted_user
deleted_user
I think we should always listen to ourselves. If we want more from a therapist and think we can talk to them about this we should discuss this with them. But, if we are not being helped, we should move.

Ask yourself if you are being helped; that is the key question. Some therapists help without giving advice directly; but they are healing and helping anyway. But some are of no help to us, so we owe it to orselves to try somebody else. Somebody else may help.

And realise that a therapist can't give us all the help we need. We need to help ourselves in various ways. And it can be a great help to read books and do research on the internet -oh, and to join support groups :) .