Dr. Megan Anna Neff
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first heard Jul 2023
last heard Jun 2025
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That's kind of a core part of CBT.
Let's take an example of a child who
goes to school and they have the thought like everyone's looking at me and no one likes me.
Right.
And then they take that to therapy.
And then the therapist might, let's work with that thought.
Um, what's the evidence that no one likes you?
Well, maybe there's a ton of evidence that that kids don't like that child.
Maybe there's a lot of those moments of disconnection from their peers.
That's gonna be really invalidating of that experience.
And it's not contextualizing that person's experience as a neurominority and what their experience is.
And so if C Bt is being done without taking that broader
Lens of what is this person's reality, it can feel really invalidating and frankly just not be very helpful.
The other thing I will sometimes notice with those of us with really divergent brains, when we start getting into an argument with our thoughts, sometimes it makes us go deeper into the wrestling of like, oh, okay, maybe that's thought's not true, but then we have a counter argument because our brains are just so divergent that then.
We go deeper into it and get more stuck.
I am a proponent of third wave CBT, which is so like acceptance commitment therapy, which focuses more on let's not change your thoughts.
Let's talk about changing your relationship to your thoughts.
And to me, that feels a lot more affirming.
We're not at all talking about let's decide if this thought is accurate or not.
Let's talk about how it can have less power over you.
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