Evening crash

Does anyone else experience a massive crash almost every evening? Like during the day sometimes I can feel like I can conquer the world and things don't faze me but then in the evening this huge wave of anxiety and feeling overwhelmed hits me and I feel so mentally exhaused and fragile that I can't picture myself coping the next day. Even though I get up the next day and I can 


Does anyone else get this and is it a common autistic thing? 

  • I feel like this after a day working in a busy, noisy catering environment. Bring tea home to reheat, sit down around 6.30pm and hardly move from my seat, curtains shut, dim lighting, sometimes TV on, completely exhausted, til I go to bed at 10.15, then get up at 7.20 to do it all again. 

  • That's exactly how I am!

  • I have ones I dont want to have at work all day 

  • I go to bed when I feel like that. Means I get some quiet hours in the morning before the rest of the world gets up.

  • Normally, I'm more productive at nighttime. Mornings are a pain, for me, to negotiate.

    Mixture of hypomania, and the meds.

  • Yes. Completely get this. On a good day I can feel on top of the world and then at night I crash and burn, like everything sinks in all the hardship of the day hits me and I'm tired and basically wrecked. I think it is an autism thing, maybe linked to masking. A good night's sleep sort of recharges the batteries and I'm good to go again lol. 

  • You have social interactions? That's a good reason for me to be on this website.

  • I know I have an anxiety disorder but I think that is probably related to trying to navigate a world that I don't fit into and which is a sensory overload

    I feel like maybe the crash comes from my brain being exhausted from processing things all day and dealing with social interactions and the demands of the world 

  • Maybe you have a mental health condition as well as autism, Billy87