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Frustration but a lack of anxiety?

Goatworshiper

Firstly like most of the other topics I've started, I'd like to clarify I'm not diagnosed but going through the motions.

Does anyone suffer from frustration? Im really easy going but when someone upsets my I got for the jugulaar so to speak. My partner is Bi-Polar type II and I don't suffer with anxiety or depression in that way. I keep reading that teeth grinding is anxiety (which i doo), but I don't feel anxious. Unless I don't understand how I feel?

Situations were Im forced to look people in the eye, or reading a lot under pressure make me feel anxious/pressured whilst Im doing it, but vanishes soon as Im done, however frustration remains. I also don't wake up and feel depressed, if I'm feeling down it's normally due to struggle's.

  • Scorpion0x17 said:

    [quote]I've started to get diagnosed recently and they said I presented no symptoms of a mood disorder. I don't understand if that means I don't have a clinical depression/anxiety in a disorder way or I don't have anxiety at all?[/quote]

    the feeling that we're forced to live a life to which we are not suited - be that having to interact with morons, or follow arbitrary rules and regulations, or social norms, or whatever.

    Wow, all of my hatred and frustration of humanity expressed in few short lines. This some it up perfectly.

  • Goatworshiper said:
    I've started to get diagnosed recently and they said I presented no symptoms of a mood disorder. I don't understand if that means I don't have a clinical depression/anxiety in a disorder way or I don't have anxiety at all?

    It means you don't have a clinically diagnosable disorder. Basically, everyone, even NTs, experiences anxieties, depressives states, manias, etc, etc, but psychology and psychiatry define various 'disorders' for which there are set diagnostic criteria, and if you don't meet those criteria you're not consider to have a disorder! Kinda circular reasoning, but that's how it works, and that's all it really means - you don't fit the criteria for any named disorder.

    And, yeah, I also think the root of all our frustrations, and anxieties, as Aspies, is the feeling that we're forced to live a life to which we are not suited - be that having to interact with morons, or follow arbitrary rules and regulations, or social norms, or whatever.

  • I've started to get diagnosed recently and they said I presented no symptoms of a mood disorder. I don't understand if that means I don't have a clinical depression/anxiety in a disorder way or I don't have anxiety at all? I find it all very confusing this emotional stuff, that I'm not emotional about. I'd say I have anxieties (about other people) rather than being anxious.

    I've never thought about using co-codemol. I don't like pharmaceuticals tbh, but i'd be willing to try it as it can be a disperable liqiud. I have sensory troubles with tablets.

    I've been using the gym to loose weight, having lost weight Im now doing a regimented weight lifting routine and I find this is giving me something to concentrate on. Focusing on something acheivable, without interactingCool It's not like my problems are going away but I can resist strangling people a bit more. Sometimes I think being isolated isnt the problem, its the being made to feel defective because I have no inclination to interact (with morons) that bugs me. 

  • I can't tell if I'm frustrated, anxious, stressed-out or depressed.

    I grind my teeth a lot too.

    I sometimes think it's not so much the words that are the problem as the causes. There simply isn't a common understanding of why not being allowed to do the things that satisfy an autistic mind are satisfying (so frustration), why the things that are stressful - such as having to interact face-to-face with people, especially groups - are stressful, and why being forced into these activities induces a relentless sense of being completely out of control, and inducing crippling anxiety in the relatively few, temporary moments where autistics are allowed, one way or another, to have an environment suited to their temperament, where they aren't aggitated by antagonistic surroundings in some form.

    I certainly aren't in any position to give anybody medical advice, but the best remedy I have found so far is codeine (in the form of over-the-counter co-codamol).

    I was very worried when I first started to use it, as it has warnings about addiction and so-on on the packaging, so I consulted my GP - who is very understanding, and has seen 'how bad I can get' when my autism is unaddressed - and she felt that if it is helping me to cope it is worthwhile: and gave me a prescription (for the same amounts as over-the-counter medications).

    Somehow it just makes me feel 'smoothed-over' in my mind, whereas without it (and my other medications) everything feels so hideously scratchy and jagged that it literally drives me out of my mind.