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Never happy

Kenny_1622

Ive did many enjoyable things things in my life, and think ive felt happy but ive alway felt unhappy. Getting married was the best thing i did and was very challenging with ASD and i know i was happy to get married to my amazing wife. But when i i think im happy i always feel unhappy, and when im really unhappy, mentally im really bad. I think im just unhappy being me and the negative things that affect me with ASD. I know there are positive with ASD but the negative are difficult to live with. The whole of my life has been clouded with depression and ASD and it takes so much energy to focus on happiness.

Does anyone else feel like dat 

  • Hi,

    I was diagnosed with depression when I was 18. Over the decades I've always scored highly on the depression scale as I can't recall when I was last "happy" or remember ever looking forward to something.

    I meet the criteria for TRD and it's a constant battle to get any sort of help. There are conditions like Alexithymia where you don't recognise or understand what you are feeling or Anhedonia where your brain just gets stuck in a low mood and it just crushes the light out of your life.

    It's truly awful and I can really relate to your post.

    I was diagnosed with ASD and ADHD-i in my early 50s and I thought that some new treatment would magically be offered to fix things, unfortunately it doesn't work that way!

    Take care.

  • Hi Kenny_1622
    I'm sorry you are dealing with ongoing depression. Thank you and well done for sharing a bit about it here.
     
    While you wait for responses from people who feel in a similar way, I thought I would share this link to our resource on depression which you may find helpful.
    I hope things improve for you soon.
     
    Very best wishes.
     
    Christine Mod