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This is a site I discovered which practices cognitive behaviour skills. Its not a really a substitute for real therapy but I found it pretty helpful. Here's the link if anyone is interested http://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome

I used this in the early in the spring when I started to get better. It helped me somewhat.

However, as you said it's not a substitute for a real therapy and it's also not as effective as some other therapies that you can find from the internet, like "overcoming social anxiety: step by step". In addition to not going to great detail, it doesn't really emphasize the patience, repetition (sinking in the brain) of the therapy material, and keeping going which is important in order to get better.

I'm looking at it and it's pretty interesting, but I find myself asking - as I always do about this type of therapy - whether it wouldn't just set a person up for disappointment, leading them out of touch with reality and so on.

I mean, for me, it's realistic to believe I will always have the social difficulties I do now. It's reasonable to expect that the person I'm talking to will suddenly reject me for no reason that's apparent to me. Those aren't warped thoughts for a person on the spectrum, they're as realistic as the belief that if you step off the roof you will fall and be injured. Every time I start thinking that things will go well and that I'm actually capable of handling things, I get knocked down again even more harshly than before.

So yeah, I'd love to believe in CBT, but I suspect it's just a smooth-talking ladies' man who will break my heart....