Published on 12, July, 2020
My brother aged 60 years has his assessment tomorrow.
He has lead an extremely l9nely life, not kniwing what is wrong with him. Psychiatrists saying he is anxious and have been of no help and have even caused him further suffering by their dusmissal of his struggles. Well tomorrow may well give him the answers that he has been looking for.
While writing dies anyone experience constant racing thoughts that consume your every moment and do you respind verbally aloud to your thoughts? Not hearing voices, but thoughts? Thank you x
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My brother was diagnosed with Autism today. X
Yes, but that is my OCD that is the cause, if I am having a bad barrage of intrusive thoughts sometimes I stim motor and verbal (autism still applies even though it's OCD in origin) to feel better about it and rock my shoulders and out-loud tell my own brain to shut up.I know it makes me "look crazy" as a combined set of behaviors, but it really is harmless, I know the intrusive thoughts are not real and just manifestations of anxieties that I will never act upon, they are just really unpleasant and distressing while they are happening and need to pass over me like like rain clouds on the hills.
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Stimming verbally? In other words is that talking out loud to yourself as an austic person? I hope i have said that cirrectly.
Yes I wondered if it was echolalia at one point but there is not often an echo part... just the "lalia". XDIt is soothing anyway. I think I developed it quite young because I sometimes found myself in situations where I needed someone to talk to about my anxieties, but often there was nobody around to do so with, so I just said them anyway as if a person was there and it felt better to have got it off my chest even if it was to absolutely nobody really.
Yes he does, but quite what he is thinking i dont know.
Thank you so much for sharing, it has given me hope for him tomorrow.
I will let you know how we get on if thats ok.
Need to try to get some sleep now, early start, good night x
Yes that happens to me, often I feel quite vulnerable in public so I also practise scripting for how to get out of or shut down a confrontation that might turn violent. that one is one that gets practised and refreshed quite often. It's also anxiety related.Although I do have one which isn't anxiety related and I just rehash part of the actual conversation I had, it's one of my fave sections of a conversation I actually had with my husband when we first met, I think I go over that one just because it was so romantic and enjoyable, it's a comforting memory I never want to let it go fuzzy with time so I keep it refreshed a lot.Does your brother seem to do this a lot too?