Therapy Archives - A blog about life on the spectrum https://kaiskjold.com/tag/therapy/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 08:38:48 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 152266933 Could It Be Stress? https://kaiskjold.com/2023/09/17/could-it-be-stress/ Sun, 17 Sep 2023 08:10:10 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=1955 What? Me? No. No way. I can’t be stressed. I just have a lot right now, a lot of pressure. Once I get past this everything will be fine. I’ll be fine. I am fine. Have you ever said that knowing full well that it was a lie? I guess we all have. I’ve been trying to write a post …

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]]> 1955 Me & Exam Anxiety https://kaiskjold.com/2023/03/19/me-exam-anxiety/ Sun, 19 Mar 2023 08:18:32 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=1945 Exams. We all have to go through them one way or another. Some can breeze through them like nothing – some, who have never opened a book the entire year and missed most classes, will go into that exam room and come out with an A+ like it is nothing. Then again, there are some who study every day of …

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]]> 1945 How Do We Heal After a Burnout? https://kaiskjold.com/2022/07/29/how-do-we-heal-after-a-burnout/ Fri, 29 Jul 2022 10:08:00 +0000 http://kaiskjold.com/?p=1873 Have you ever explained important things about yourself and said something like “…because I am autistic” or “…I have Asperger’s so ….” Maybe you gave up explaining and just said some variation of:  “People like me on the spectrum can’t do that.”? I know I do. I have done that often in the past. You know why I do it? …

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]]> 1873 When Therapy Goes Wrong https://kaiskjold.com/2021/07/05/when-therapy-goes-wrong/ Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:30:00 +0000 http://kaiskjold.com/?p=1739 How often have you gone to some specialist because you needed help, only to be reduced to a questionnaire? If all it takes to diagnose someone or decide what support is needed is to fill out a form, why aren’t we all doing it on our own? The person asking the questions really doesn’t know if we are lying or …

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]]> 1739 More on the Wrong Kind of Help https://kaiskjold.com/2021/02/26/more-on-the-wrong-kind-of-help/ Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000 http://kaiskjold.com/?p=1677 Yeah, so it’s been a while since I was able to keep a regular posting schedule and it actually really frustrates me. I need to write to feel good, so you can probably guess, I’ve been quite frustrated for a while. Starting something new is always difficult and I was fully prepared for that – or I thought that I …

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]]> 1677 The Wrong Kind of Help https://kaiskjold.com/2021/02/11/the-wrong-kind-of-help/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:15:41 +0000 http://kaiskjold.com/?p=1664 I have already said this several times over the last couple of years, but many of us on the spectrum need support in some way to be able to live relatively independently. To some it may appear like we can live independently without any “real problems” and this is in some way, I guess, true. In some way, however, it’s …

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]]> 1664 Why Therapy Can Be the Right Thing https://kaiskjold.com/2020/09/30/why-therapy-can-be-the-right-thing/ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:14:00 +0000 http://kaiskjold.com/?p=1528 (… And Why It Sometimes Doesn’t Help) You have no idea how many times I’ve tried and failed with therapy. I must have met every type of therapist throughout the last half of my life – first time I decided to get therapy was when I was in high school and it was anything but successful. I don’t like lying, …

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