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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 usually suggest "interrupts", but recently the Moderators put a dampner on this by suggesting I was endorsing self-harm. But things like flicking your ear can stop you thinking negatively, even for a short time, and if you use interrupts regularly you can substitute a phrase like "stop this now", just enough to interrupt the worry cycle so you forget where you were and have to start again.'

    Longman excellent comments but I do understand the moderators view on this particular view- for me personally it can easily tip into a mild self-harming mechanism (ie. which reinforces my negative feelings physically and thus becomes a maladaptive coping strategy) without me even realising- I have recently had my attention indavertently drawn to this by a clever observer.  I suppose this may depend on the person.  I have to be careful regarding this.  I would suggest something else that doesn't involve the body- for example a stressball or whatever works for that particular person.  I agree  that this does 'interupt' the thinking and gives it a physical outlet- something I have been amazed to discover the power of. 

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  • "I usually suggest "interrupts", but recently the Moderators put a dampner on this by suggesting I was endorsing self-harm. But things like flicking your ear can stop you thinking negatively, even for a short time, and if you use interrupts regularly you can substitute a phrase like "stop this now", just enough to interrupt the worry cycle so you forget where you were and have to start again.'

    Longman excellent comments but I do understand the moderators view on this particular view- for me personally it can easily tip into a mild self-harming mechanism (ie. which reinforces my negative feelings physically and thus becomes a maladaptive coping strategy) without me even realising- I have recently had my attention indavertently drawn to this by a clever observer.  I suppose this may depend on the person.  I have to be careful regarding this.  I would suggest something else that doesn't involve the body- for example a stressball or whatever works for that particular person.  I agree  that this does 'interupt' the thinking and gives it a physical outlet- something I have been amazed to discover the power of. 

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