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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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  • I think I can relate to this very much, anxiety has been a constant in my life for as long as I can remember, I have tried many things over the years.

    I am hesitant to recommend it as it is known to be addictive but to be honest I feel codeine has I feel helped me over the past few years - I get so wound up from stress and anxiety that the distress pain becomes physical to me, and a further barrier in terms of social interaction, and then affecting sleep and diet and so-on, compounding my issues. 

    I had not heard of pregablin before I might mention it to my doctor.

    I'm certainly not attempting to imply that such therapies are useless, but I do get a bit frustated at times if people try and treat my anxiety and stress as a purely psychological issue, as I assume that there must be some essentially neurological basis, affecting sensory perception, cognitive processing and so-on presumably.

    Sorry, I don't have any answers at all - but I just wanted to say that I feel like I can relate so much, the struggle with stress and anxiety is on going and affects me on a daily basis.

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  • I think I can relate to this very much, anxiety has been a constant in my life for as long as I can remember, I have tried many things over the years.

    I am hesitant to recommend it as it is known to be addictive but to be honest I feel codeine has I feel helped me over the past few years - I get so wound up from stress and anxiety that the distress pain becomes physical to me, and a further barrier in terms of social interaction, and then affecting sleep and diet and so-on, compounding my issues. 

    I had not heard of pregablin before I might mention it to my doctor.

    I'm certainly not attempting to imply that such therapies are useless, but I do get a bit frustated at times if people try and treat my anxiety and stress as a purely psychological issue, as I assume that there must be some essentially neurological basis, affecting sensory perception, cognitive processing and so-on presumably.

    Sorry, I don't have any answers at all - but I just wanted to say that I feel like I can relate so much, the struggle with stress and anxiety is on going and affects me on a daily basis.

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