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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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  • thank you for replying. i've found all these suggestions really helpful and will try them out.

    i can manage anxiety that is specific, e.g. getting worried about going somewhere, as i can talk myself through it, arrange my exit strategy, plan my route and a spare one in case it doesn't go well etc.

    but i'm finding the waking up in sheer panic for no reason really hard (not bad dreams)

    some days i feel like everything is just moving inside me and i can't slow it down. my heart doesn't race like books on anxiety state, but it's like every cell in my body is agitated andmoving... it's really hard to describe and so hard to stop it once it starts.

    i hate having to take drugs, but without them i can't function at all.

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  • thank you for replying. i've found all these suggestions really helpful and will try them out.

    i can manage anxiety that is specific, e.g. getting worried about going somewhere, as i can talk myself through it, arrange my exit strategy, plan my route and a spare one in case it doesn't go well etc.

    but i'm finding the waking up in sheer panic for no reason really hard (not bad dreams)

    some days i feel like everything is just moving inside me and i can't slow it down. my heart doesn't race like books on anxiety state, but it's like every cell in my body is agitated andmoving... it's really hard to describe and so hard to stop it once it starts.

    i hate having to take drugs, but without them i can't function at all.

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