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Everything's got worse since my diagnosis

NAS64928

I've been recently diagnosed with ASD after troubles with anxiety, depression and concentration.
While the diagnosis has improved the depression, I feel like my anxiety and concentration problems (sensitive to conversations and loud/lots of sounds going on around me) have become worse.

The things that are worse are that I sweat all the time I'm around people and most of the time I have a headache (even when alone), which gets worse when there are conversations happening near me.

I tried telling my parents but they seemed as if they didn't believe me at first, saying that it sounded weird.


Did anyone else have this?

  • in reply to NAS87179

    Hopefully you found some help since you posted this. There's a lot of information on this website and many others, I've found it helpful while I've been waiting for post diagnosis sessions.the key thing is to try and stay positive, it seems like diagnosis commonly causes people to feel worse and a lot of that will be from focusing on it too much. try and distract yourself with hobbies, work or other things if you can and take care. There's some good free self referable stuff the NHS do in the UK for anxiety, mainly online guided CBT, I found that helped a lot. I hope you find the help you need!

  • Hiya, I have just recently been diagnosed with ASD and Auditory Processing Disorder I thought I would have felt relief but my anxiety has got worse, I have also been diagnosed with General Anxiety Disorder.  The way I am feeling at the moment is this desperation for someone to help me, but I haven't got anyone.

  • in reply to NAS64928

    I’ve found personally, that I’ve spent my whole life trying to fit in. Getting diagnosed as Autistic has made me realise that I don’t need to fit in. BUT alongside letting go of trying to be ‘normal’ comes realising all of the eccentricities/oddities/anxieties that I’ve buried for years. Because I don’t feel that I need to bury them anymore. But oh wow that is going to be one hell of a lot of stuff to sort through and I will need support from services of some description to sort through it. Have you had any post diagnostic support?

  • in reply to Kitsune

    So I could be unmasking the things I've just automatically masked over time?

  • In theory getting a diagnosis gives us a sense of relief and lots of answers to why we are the way we are. It does, but it also gives way to lots of ASD/anxiety symptoms that we’ve learned to mask and bury to try to fit in and appear ‘normal’. Have you tried speaking with your doctor about this?