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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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  • I will second Longman, the trick is breaking cycles of negitave reinforcment, something I aspire to do but often struggle with. I was taight simply to redirect my thoughts when I find myself dwelling on negitaves, but if the concern is a reall one, how ever distant slim or intangable shifting my thoughts feels... irisponsible.

    I also have the problem that I redily pick up negitave asosiations to other stimuli. For example I had some sucesses managing my anxiety via Meditation. I'd que up a favorite song, always the same one and listen to it as a timer. But during one of my bad periods I was striken by depressave thoughts and a panic attack that cut clean though it, and now I'm left afraid of using that song or medatating because of the association now forged. 

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  • I will second Longman, the trick is breaking cycles of negitave reinforcment, something I aspire to do but often struggle with. I was taight simply to redirect my thoughts when I find myself dwelling on negitaves, but if the concern is a reall one, how ever distant slim or intangable shifting my thoughts feels... irisponsible.

    I also have the problem that I redily pick up negitave asosiations to other stimuli. For example I had some sucesses managing my anxiety via Meditation. I'd que up a favorite song, always the same one and listen to it as a timer. But during one of my bad periods I was striken by depressave thoughts and a panic attack that cut clean though it, and now I'm left afraid of using that song or medatating because of the association now forged. 

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