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Anxiety and obsessions

Roguelife

I go through a lot of intense anxiety, as well as depression, and generally I'll be worrying to death about things I know I don't need to worry about it, or which I should put aside for now and deal with later. People have always told me I should be able to do this - choose to worry about something later, or dismiss worries from my mind - but this seems utterly impossible to me. 

Is this part of the obsessive way an autistic mind works? I know I obsess over mundane things too which don't cause me anxiety but which I feel compelled to do, and also I get pleasure from obsessing over certain interests. Do we just have to accept this worry as part of the obsessiveness?

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  • I don't know if you are still following this post, Roguelife. But the only way I've found to alleviate the burden of anxiety and obsessive thoughts is to have the compassionate ear and the loving hand of a friend to ease your troubled mind as you walk through the anxiety and see it for what it is: fearful imagination.

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  • I don't know if you are still following this post, Roguelife. But the only way I've found to alleviate the burden of anxiety and obsessive thoughts is to have the compassionate ear and the loving hand of a friend to ease your troubled mind as you walk through the anxiety and see it for what it is: fearful imagination.

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  • in reply to ☕Tassimo ☕

    Thanks Tassimo, I appreciate the advice but it's not always the easiest thing to express all my irrational worries to a friend. I'm a bit embarrassed. And even when I can get over that, most people aren't willing to really listen to something they can't fully understand. Or even if they are then to know I'm not understood kind of takes away from the help I might otherwise get. Sometimes it might be about whether or not you're lucky enough to have a friend with infinite patience and understanding!