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Bad anxiety today

LivAgain

Hi everyone,

This morning I feel so shaky and anxious that I really don't feel I can go to college. I'm going to because I don't want my family to worry but I feel really restless and nervy! It's irritating because my medication is supposed to be treating my anxiety feelings, but all it seems to be doing is putting me to sleep at night (which is a good thing because I know from past experience that my sleep would be suffering and we all know that usually can only make things worse, but in the day I feel perpetually anxious) - I don't know, I just wanted to talk about it! For me, feelings are like moths; they'll flit around inside you more and more crazily unless you open a window (i.e. talk about them).

Any tips?

Thanks so much,

LivAgain Innocent

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    Hi Marjorie,

    i think you are describing a CBT approach for dealing with depression? It seems to me that Liv's problems may include an element that is susceptible to that approach but that there is something else going on that has caused the severe pain as a child and that may still be causing issues now.

    my experience, pre diagnosis, was that I simply had no idea that i had an asperger tendency that i could deal with rationally so no amount of thought would get to the bottom of what was causing me problems.

    Thanks for pointing me at the Alexithymia thing. I hadn't come across this term before but a search of the community reveals that it has been discussed before

    community.autism.org.uk/.../alexithymia

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    Former Member

    Hi Marjorie,

    i think you are describing a CBT approach for dealing with depression? It seems to me that Liv's problems may include an element that is susceptible to that approach but that there is something else going on that has caused the severe pain as a child and that may still be causing issues now.

    my experience, pre diagnosis, was that I simply had no idea that i had an asperger tendency that i could deal with rationally so no amount of thought would get to the bottom of what was causing me problems.

    Thanks for pointing me at the Alexithymia thing. I hadn't come across this term before but a search of the community reveals that it has been discussed before

    community.autism.org.uk/.../alexithymia

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