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.
i know what you mean but mine was the result of a breakdown, for want of any 'proper' word. I lost all my emotions, interests, life lost its point and meaning and since then it's been five years of nothing. I know other people say that when people with autism go through acute stress the autism gets permanently worse, for instance i became learning-disabled and lost all my longterm memories from the past, i can barely concentrate now etc - it's a controversial view. I would say deal with the anxiety like get tablets or whatever, "autism" is just a name stuck on an unalterable fact with no ideas about what to do about it, whereas anxiety depression ocd there are help books, forums etc; this is the view i am coming to