Helpful information desperately needed please!

I have recently started the diagnostic process for ASD, and would like your help urgently with coping information.

My behaviour, which I have always normalised, has become most apparent over the last year, and has led to my partner leaving due to my sometimes 'psychotic' behaviour, which made him fear for his safety. This also resulted in me taking an overdose, and everything has turned into caos around me :(

I will do anything to fix this mess, and if I have any chance of getting him back, and living a happy life in general, then I need desperate help controlling my mood swings, noticing and stopping triggers, and to become a lot less obssessive and focused.

I would like to be reading a lot of directional information and possibly doing somesort of online coping course.  

Can you please tell me what you think will help, and help me at this very overwhelming and painful time.  I have tried looking through the internet, but I am too depressed to make sense of anything.

Thanks

Michael 

  • I am in the process of diagnosis with a psychiatrist, and will be starting cbt, and see other professionals as we go.  I am keen to attend any counseling available, and want to work my anger and mood issues out immediately, as well as eating and sleeping.

    Any effective counseling or alike that you can advise, would be very helpful.

    Thanks :)

  • Have you thought of attending some counselling? 

  • bananas said:

    Sorry to hear things are tough. Have you been to your GP ? they may be able to help with medication.

     

    There is a lot of information to read on the internet , but my son was recommended MOOD GYM as a website to work through.

     

    It might just give you some direction. I'm not sure what king of diagnosis you are seeking , but the book anxiety and aspergers has some good advice in it too.

     

    Keep posting and we will all try and help.

    Thank you so much for your information, I am already completing the MoodGYM course, and it is excellent!  

    I know that half the stuff on it seems so obvious when reflecting, but it is showing me so much that makes sense.  It covers the combination of what anxiety and depression do to the mind, and that the way i think, is indeed the way I act, which is so true, it is a wake up call!

    I am currently medicated, and am taking 50mg quitiapine each night, unfortunately I od'd on a box of them a few days ago.  I am back to the psychiatrist on Monday, and we will be looking at posibly raising the dose, as the od made me feel normal, not ill, and i feel that is due to the higher ani-psychotic effect at a high dosage, although think this is a personal reaction, and not a piece of adice to others, in anyway, shape, or form!!!  I would like to not take meds, but feel they are almost essentil to my sleep and anxiety at the moment.

    Thanks again for a great link, you have already made a difference to my mood, and its turning happy again!  I hope your son has done well from the MoodGYM too, he is a lucky guy to have such an interested father, and you need recognising for that :)

  • Sorry to hear things are tough. Have you been to your GP ? they may be able to help with medication.

     

    There is a lot of information to read on the internet , but my son was recommended MOOD GYM as a website to work through.

     

    It might just give you some direction. I'm not sure what king of diagnosis you are seeking , but the book anxiety and aspergers has some good advice in it too.

     

    Keep posting and we will all try and help.