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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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  • OK fair point. I don't want to create a new problem. It was just what I did initially, on medical advice, until I got used to verbal interrupts, which I do instinctively now.

    The stress ball option sounds perfectly good if it achieves a comparable distrraction.

    Worth mentioning here weighted blankets, weighted jackets or squeeze boxes which have had favourable reports for stress reduction. People on the spectrum don't often get, and indeed may have difficulty, with real hugs and embraces common amongst neurotypicals. So the mechanical substitute seems to work.

    I certainly found heavy blankets or confined spaces/ pressing enclosure reassuring when a youngster.

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  • OK fair point. I don't want to create a new problem. It was just what I did initially, on medical advice, until I got used to verbal interrupts, which I do instinctively now.

    The stress ball option sounds perfectly good if it achieves a comparable distrraction.

    Worth mentioning here weighted blankets, weighted jackets or squeeze boxes which have had favourable reports for stress reduction. People on the spectrum don't often get, and indeed may have difficulty, with real hugs and embraces common amongst neurotypicals. So the mechanical substitute seems to work.

    I certainly found heavy blankets or confined spaces/ pressing enclosure reassuring when a youngster.

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