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Anxiety & ASD

KeyboardWorrier68

Hi,

I'm going to be contacting my GP soon about pursuing a diagnosis, but I am finding that when I start thinking about the possibility of having some form of ASD that I get anxious and I get a recurrence of a twitch that I have developed since Christmas due to the stress of issues in my personal life.

I understand that anxiety and ASD go frequently find themselves hand-in-hand, do others here since diagnosed have track records of anxiety? I used to be a very anxious child and although gradually this dissipated as I got towards my late teens it has persisted in the area of relationships, though the twitch is a new thing.

Hearing of others' experiences is a big comfort to me currently; I don't want to say that I'm pinning my hopes on a diagnosis as if it was to be negative it doesn't paint a very nice picture of my behaviour.

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  • I have suffered from anxiety all my life, KW, although as I've grown older I am able to manage it a bit better. Like you, I worry a tremendous amount over anything at all - things that many people would simply take in their stride. As you can appreciate, it does make life difficult at times because it acts as a barrier to getting on in life in terms of going places and interacting with people, which is very important for personal development, both in social and occupational terms.

    Like you, I would at least know why I'm this way if I were able to obtain an official diagnosis of AS but without this I'm always left to wonder if it's just some kind of character flaw in me. I doubt I'm clinically Aspergers, anyway, so all that would happen is that I would be told to get on with it and stop feeling sorry for myself.

    So, what puts me off seeking a diagnosis is the possible hostile and or indifference I might get from my GP, knowing what some people on the AS have to put up with, and this is something that would probably make me feel a bit guilty about wasting my GP's time.

    A few years ago, I saw my GP (at least one of them) about a noise sensitivity problem I had and guess what? Yes, I was fobbed off with anti-depressents and an online CBT course which proved totally useless. So, I can well relate with your predicament, KW, and I just think the NHS is failing people, not only who are on the AS, but many others who have mental health issues and are left to 'get on with it', making life pretty difficult to deal with at times.

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  • I have suffered from anxiety all my life, KW, although as I've grown older I am able to manage it a bit better. Like you, I worry a tremendous amount over anything at all - things that many people would simply take in their stride. As you can appreciate, it does make life difficult at times because it acts as a barrier to getting on in life in terms of going places and interacting with people, which is very important for personal development, both in social and occupational terms.

    Like you, I would at least know why I'm this way if I were able to obtain an official diagnosis of AS but without this I'm always left to wonder if it's just some kind of character flaw in me. I doubt I'm clinically Aspergers, anyway, so all that would happen is that I would be told to get on with it and stop feeling sorry for myself.

    So, what puts me off seeking a diagnosis is the possible hostile and or indifference I might get from my GP, knowing what some people on the AS have to put up with, and this is something that would probably make me feel a bit guilty about wasting my GP's time.

    A few years ago, I saw my GP (at least one of them) about a noise sensitivity problem I had and guess what? Yes, I was fobbed off with anti-depressents and an online CBT course which proved totally useless. So, I can well relate with your predicament, KW, and I just think the NHS is failing people, not only who are on the AS, but many others who have mental health issues and are left to 'get on with it', making life pretty difficult to deal with at times.

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