Published on 12, July, 2020
A friend of mine who is autistic was recently diagnosed with this.
I've read of others here in the past who have the diagnosis.
I've wondered if I have the disorder although I don't have the diagnosis.
When I was younger (around 30 years ago) I remember telling my GP that I felt 'locked into a state of anxiety' and that is when he put me onto antidepressants (again).
A few years later I saw a letter from the hospital which listed my medical conditions and it included anxiety.
This really bemused me as I thought anxiety was just an ordinary part of everyday life.
I believe that the disorder diagnosis is a fairly recently one (I must check that out).
I'm pretty certain that the anxiety will be closely tied into the challenges of being autistic and also I have undiagnosed OCD which is obviously anxiety based and have had this since I was a small child.
What do others think - do you have a diagnosis?
Do you become anxious in certain situations?
Or are you just anxious all the time?
I was suspected of having it a few years before by autism diagnosis. I can't remember what all the questions were, but I had most of them. Particularly the tense shoulders.
I now see it as due to my autism.
I've so many examples, but one thing is since COVID, my wife also works from home when I always did. Hearing her on the phone stresses me. I don't mean annoying. But I take on and get stressed by all her work problems when there is literally nothing I can do about them.
I was speaking to a nice lady from Autism Herts the other day and she knew what I was talking about - she said it's like your anxiety starts at 3/4s full before your day even starts when I described always feeling anxious even before I think of things to be anxious about.