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Depression and aspergers

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Hi,

Does anyone have any information about depression and aspergers.  I became seriously depressed a few years ago and ended up in hospital. I am still on medication and I think I have been depressed in the past.  I have heard that people with aspergers are more likely to suffer depression.  I wonder if anyone has had any experience of treatments, recovery and also whether it was true that you are more likely to be depressed

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  • While there may be more fundamantal inclinations towards depression, the problem of coping with an unsympathetic society doesn't help. But the other thing you could address is any disposition to worry.

    My own theory is that the need to analyse social situations, in order to fill the gaps in what we miss, gives a higher predisposition to analyse everything. So we probably spend an undue amount of time worrying.

    Moreover the process may mean going through all the different permutations of what might happen, as a consequence of this happening, as a consequence of that happening. And there will be an inclination to explore the negatives (about which we might worry) rather than the positives (which we might not expect to happen to us).

    So you end up with negative reinforcement - a tendancy to dwell on all the negative possibilities, which generates low self esteem and low self confidence. This can become an addiction, and is bound to increase the potential for clinical depression.

    If you can find any ways to avoid negative reinforcement - break phrases or flicking you ear lobe to stop yourself doing it, or trying to think of positives (counting your blessings), or asking yourself how likely are most of the outcomes you've been mulling over, it will make a difference.

    Medication might have to be the option, but anything you can do in the meantime to up your self esteem must be crucial.

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  • While there may be more fundamantal inclinations towards depression, the problem of coping with an unsympathetic society doesn't help. But the other thing you could address is any disposition to worry.

    My own theory is that the need to analyse social situations, in order to fill the gaps in what we miss, gives a higher predisposition to analyse everything. So we probably spend an undue amount of time worrying.

    Moreover the process may mean going through all the different permutations of what might happen, as a consequence of this happening, as a consequence of that happening. And there will be an inclination to explore the negatives (about which we might worry) rather than the positives (which we might not expect to happen to us).

    So you end up with negative reinforcement - a tendancy to dwell on all the negative possibilities, which generates low self esteem and low self confidence. This can become an addiction, and is bound to increase the potential for clinical depression.

    If you can find any ways to avoid negative reinforcement - break phrases or flicking you ear lobe to stop yourself doing it, or trying to think of positives (counting your blessings), or asking yourself how likely are most of the outcomes you've been mulling over, it will make a difference.

    Medication might have to be the option, but anything you can do in the meantime to up your self esteem must be crucial.

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