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managing anxiety - tips please

treeswaving

can i ask how you manage the associated anxiety that goes with your asd?

am a female with asd and my anxiety is a huge issue.

tried with limited improvement various antidepressants.

now taking pregabalin. helps a lot, but doesn't resolve it all and i'm not sure it's a long term solution.

trying cbt but finding it very upsetting and not much help. maybe it's just too early in the program, but it just makes me feel more of a failure.

any suggestions on how you all cope with your anxiety greatly received.

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    Listen to some music or a podcast? I found that listening to Radio 4 podcasts such as The Life Scientific, In Our Time, All In the Mind, Thinking Allowed all helped get me back in a more positive groove. I have them saved on my phone and can listen to them when I want.

    As I understand it (I'm starting to read more on this) this is a mindfulness technique. You need to bring yourself back to something in the here and now that engages your mind and distracts you away from the runaway thoughts.

    Other people have other tricks but this has worked for me over the last year :-)

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    Listen to some music or a podcast? I found that listening to Radio 4 podcasts such as The Life Scientific, In Our Time, All In the Mind, Thinking Allowed all helped get me back in a more positive groove. I have them saved on my phone and can listen to them when I want.

    As I understand it (I'm starting to read more on this) this is a mindfulness technique. You need to bring yourself back to something in the here and now that engages your mind and distracts you away from the runaway thoughts.

    Other people have other tricks but this has worked for me over the last year :-)

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