Published on 12, July, 2020
Does anyone else out there find that symptoms of anxiety leading to exhaustion get worse as you get older? I am fifty years old, diagnosed with Asperger, and am finding it increasingly difficult to get up for work or even maintain an interest in my passion for woodturning? Is this an experience shared by others? I feel like I have hit burnout and finding it all rather depressing.
Hi Andrewj,since my diagnosis of Asperger's 2 weeks ago I have had time to think about having lived with this condition for 47 years and over the last few days I have come to exactly the same conclusion.Far from having the experience to have got used to it I am finding that it is getting increasingly harder to live with,things are getting worse,obsessions,anxiety(that's really tough to deal with),my routines which are becoming even more rigorous than ever and I guess it is because of the condition spiralling over the last 8 years that it has led me to where I am today in terms of dignosis,had things stayed where they were I would have just lived my life thinking I was just a bit awkward and set in my ways but it has gone way beyond that and experience is doing nothing to help me cope.Tha anxiety,which is awful is something I am seriously tiring of and would love a day without it,actually,if I had a day without it I'd be anxious as to why I'm not anxious.I also find that interests which I have had all my life becoming boring,and there weren't many of them due to my attention span which has always been nearly non-existent,now it's nill and I am constantly distracted which is really difficult to deal with and hugely frustrating as I am always thinking of the next thing before I have barely dealt with the current thought so I totally agree with you.