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Anxiety overload

Kabi

I know this is ridiculous, but lately, I can't get the thought of death, or the end of the world out of my head. I've had anxiety over silly things like this all my life but they started to dwindle away as I hit 18. They still showed but were much less upsetting, but for the past few days, (thanks to an artical I read) I am now terrified, and I can't remember what I did to make them stop. I know this is a very silly thing to get upset over but I can't get it out of my head. The words keep going round and round and I can't get rid of them. I'm so scared that I'm just going to go back to what I was like when I was a teenager. I'm sick of being scared about everything.

I know this isn't much to go on but I hope someone can help.

Thank you

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  • Anxiety spirals seem to be one of the hazards of ASD and come and go.

    I wonder if the predisposition is down to the need to read between the lines/work out what's going on in conversations, especially if you feel someone has said something harsh. We analyse all the possible interpretations to work out what has really been said.

    Having got the propensity from everyday communication coping strategies we then readily analyse every situation. We become very good at following all the possibilities through their outcomes, often well beyond reason. And because negative routes are often more numerous than positive we tend to dwell on the negative.

    The way out is either to break the anxiety spiral, or try to acquire positive messages. To break the spiral you need to arm yourself with some positive reassurances on the lines of "I know this is daft", "thse things rarely happen" "don't be daft" or just STOP. Start thinking about lots of good things. Get active - go for a walk, play badminton, dig the garden etc.

    Hope this ramble helps. I've spent massive amounts of my lifetime exploring every doom filled outcome of situations, and you just end up unable to think any happy thought at all unless you can arrest the decline. 

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  • Anxiety spirals seem to be one of the hazards of ASD and come and go.

    I wonder if the predisposition is down to the need to read between the lines/work out what's going on in conversations, especially if you feel someone has said something harsh. We analyse all the possible interpretations to work out what has really been said.

    Having got the propensity from everyday communication coping strategies we then readily analyse every situation. We become very good at following all the possibilities through their outcomes, often well beyond reason. And because negative routes are often more numerous than positive we tend to dwell on the negative.

    The way out is either to break the anxiety spiral, or try to acquire positive messages. To break the spiral you need to arm yourself with some positive reassurances on the lines of "I know this is daft", "thse things rarely happen" "don't be daft" or just STOP. Start thinking about lots of good things. Get active - go for a walk, play badminton, dig the garden etc.

    Hope this ramble helps. I've spent massive amounts of my lifetime exploring every doom filled outcome of situations, and you just end up unable to think any happy thought at all unless you can arrest the decline. 

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