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Any experience or advice on medication for negative rumination?

NAS90609

I would like to hear people's experiences of using prescription medications to deal with negative rumination either directly or as a symptom of depression and/or anxiety so that I can start thinking about whether medication is an option for me.

I know these things are not autism - but it seems like they're often travelling partners and I'm not yet at a point in my own post-diagnosis journey where I can tell where one set of symptoms starts and others end.

I was diagnosed as autistic just over a year ago after a few years of noticeable decline in my mental health - particularly in my ability to deal with people - and as part of trying to unpick all that - it turns out I rate pretty highly on the depression scale.

I don't necessarily feel depressed in a literal sense - I feel like I have a reasonable grasp of what is and isn't working in my life - but I'm definitely showing many of the standard symptoms and constant negative rumination is by far the worst of them.

The things that trigger my rumination are basic everyday life things that I can't get away from or stop - so removing the source or removing myself from the source are not options.

I'm working hard to do all the right things - I've done some CBT counselling, I'm practicing cognitive diffusion, I'm meditating, I'm getting out of the house for walks, I'm drinking less and I'm trying to be easier on myself and more proactive about autistic things that feed into the problem like my sensitivity to noise and my general distrust and dislike of people.

Despite all this I'm now at a point where it's having a more severe impact on my daily life and I'm feeling like it's getting worse and maybe I'm at a point where I need to consider medication - which I assume will be some sort of SSRI or SNRI.

I'd appreciate any insights from your own experience.

Thanks.

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  • Autism is an Amygdala issue. The Amygdala controls how you socially interact with others. This interaction overrides any cortex involvement. So the only solution is to control the Amygdala. Have you ever been told that all meditation is only about either your sipne or your Amygdala? 

  • in reply to Kevin m

    Your reply has nothing to do with this post.

    Please have some respect for the discussions that people are having here.

  • in reply to NAS90609

    You misunderstand. Anti depressants affects the cortex. Autistic people have nothing wrong with thier cortex. So why would you take a cortex drug? Thats why they are a very bad idea. They just sedate you. Its like having a heart problem. Finding no heart doctors exist. So you see a lung doctor instead. Close enough isnt it? No its not! Autistic people need to see amygdala doctors for amygdala issues. Yes! Surely you agree. But no Amygdala doctors exist.so they give you cortex sedation drugs and hope you are sedated enough so the doctors can ignore you abd your amygdala issues 

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    Kevin m said:
    Autism is an Amygdala issue

    I'm not sure where you found this information.

    You may be interested in this chap, though, if you like neurology https://channelmcgilchrist.com/master-and-his-emissary/

    Since there's a lot of misinformation about Autism to begin with, and that misinformation leads to autistic children being abused, tortured and given lobotomies, I think it's safer for us all, if (for instance) I don't have a PhD (or even if I do), to help others understand where the information came from, if I spent 30 years on the research or if it's a possible connexion I've made from medical studies I've recently found. 

    Sometimes it's easy enough to reframe how you transmit information found with phrases which help open up a dialogue like, "I've read autism [might be] an Amygdala issue" followed by a link to the research. Adding in 'might be' is helpful in case a parent on this site reads what you've written and suddenly decides to give a 5 year old something that could be poisonous which claims to fix the Amygdala. Being responsible with information is really crucial :)

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  • in reply to Kevin m
    Kevin m said:
    Autism is an Amygdala issue

    I'm not sure where you found this information.

    You may be interested in this chap, though, if you like neurology https://channelmcgilchrist.com/master-and-his-emissary/

    Since there's a lot of misinformation about Autism to begin with, and that misinformation leads to autistic children being abused, tortured and given lobotomies, I think it's safer for us all, if (for instance) I don't have a PhD (or even if I do), to help others understand where the information came from, if I spent 30 years on the research or if it's a possible connexion I've made from medical studies I've recently found. 

    Sometimes it's easy enough to reframe how you transmit information found with phrases which help open up a dialogue like, "I've read autism [might be] an Amygdala issue" followed by a link to the research. Adding in 'might be' is helpful in case a parent on this site reads what you've written and suddenly decides to give a 5 year old something that could be poisonous which claims to fix the Amygdala. Being responsible with information is really crucial :)

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