Dr. Megan Anna Neff
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first heard Jul 2023
last heard Jun 2025
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And even if it doesn't feel pleasurable, we're going to do some things.
And it's very gentle.
Again, it can be really supportive for depression.
However, if autistic burnout is not considered as part of that, or an autistic person's sensory profile is not considered as part of that, you might go too fast too soon.
And it might be like, well, let's plan a social event and let's make sure you're feeling an achievement.
So let's do kind of all these activities.
Part of that behavioral activation, you'd actually want rest to be built into it and respite and sensory detox time.
And so that would be an aspect where if the fatigue is,
and the energy limits and the social limits and the sensory profile aren't being considered, it could actually deepen the burnout.
So that would be one area where you'd want to adapt that so that there's a lot of that rest and respite built in.
And then the second area has to do with that depressed mind piece.
A lot of therapies around depression tend to be CBT focused.
We've actually talked about that on your podcast, kind of the different therapies that sometimes work for us, sometimes don't.
And again, if we think about depressed mind, we can understand why CBT or other approaches like mindfulness-based acceptance commitment therapy is one I like.
It's slightly different than traditional CBT.
We can understand why these are helpful because it's about detaching from that depressed mind that is telling you everything is terrible.
However, if that's not done with context of the autistic person's lived experience, that can be deeply invalidating.
And maybe they'll spiral into more shame if they're trying to perhaps like reframe some thoughts.
But they're not just depressed thoughts.
They're also thoughts that are connected to internalized ableism and to burnout.
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