managing anxiety - tips please

Aspie brains are physically built so they are extra susceptible to over-thinking and we miss a lot of the social input that non-aspie get that continuously provides guidance and references to less catastrophic ways of thinking. The root cause of the anxiety lies in the physiology but the brain is also susceptible to persuasion and training.

So, my understaning is that we might have to try harder to study what other people do. We can also decide to filter the signals that we expose ourselves to. We can recognise and avoid situations that will cause us distress. 

We can decide to listen to a symphony rather than listen to the silence and whatever ramblings our brains will generate in the absence of any other input.

Our brains are immensely complex and powerful and they provide a large amount of control and choice about the signals that we receive. CBT and mindfulness etc are about exercising choice in controlling our own environments and what the brain is given to work on at any given time.

I find it useful to use these techniques and I believe that I can sometimes exercise more control about my environment and hence my thought processes.

Drugs are useful for some things, and you may get some benefit from them but many aspies find that the usual drugs don't work as they are really designed for other mind chemistry problems that Aspie's often don't have.

Aspie brains are physically built so they are extra susceptible to over-thinking and we miss a lot of the social input that non-aspie get that continuously provides guidance and references to less catastrophic ways of thinking. The root cause of the anxiety lies in the physiology but the brain is also susceptible to persuasion and training.

So, my understaning is that we might have to try harder to study what other people do. We can also decide to filter the signals that we expose ourselves to. We can recognise and avoid situations that will cause us distress. 

We can decide to listen to a symphony rather than listen to the silence and whatever ramblings our brains will generate in the absence of any other input.

Our brains are immensely complex and powerful and they provide a large amount of control and choice about the signals that we receive. CBT and mindfulness etc are about exercising choice in controlling our own environments and what the brain is given to work on at any given time.

I find it useful to use these techniques and I believe that I can sometimes exercise more control about my environment and hence my thought processes.

Drugs are useful for some things, and you may get some benefit from them but many aspies find that the usual drugs don't work as they are really designed for other mind chemistry problems that Aspie's often don't have.