Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi just wanted to know how everyone's mental health is. I'm mid 20s now and in the last five years mine has been terrible and currently I'm in a really bad place. I've been in hospital four times and tried to end my life twice. I'm not proud of that but I can't help it it's just the way I'm feeling lately. My main problems are depression, ptsd, ocd, anxiety and psychotic disorder. I have medication and frequent assessments which usually land me in hospital.
Is this related to Autism or is it just one of those things? I don't know much about it.
my mental health is constantly decreasing. I started feeling this way 3 weeks ago - my anxiety is getting worse and I feel more tired every day. Yesterday wasn't a good day- a bad thing at school happened and it gave me the coup de grace. Today I skipped school because I'm feeling really bad, but I feel pathetic and a bit useless: everyone goes to school even if they feel bad, why am I so sensitive? Am I too weak? Yeah- I feel like ***. The only good thing is that today I'll finally take an appointment with my therapist (it's the first therapy session I have), so wish me good luck!
Best of luck I hope your appointment went well.
For me, the $150-$200+ per hour psychotherapy fee is for a transaction for which there’s only one party that is always a winner — the therapist’s bank account.
Regarding skipping high school classes, I recall attending maybe half of Grades 8 and 9, both of which I despised and just barely passed. I then left regular high school and completed my GED in a separate program.
Perhaps not surprising, I'd like to see child-development science curriculum implemented for secondary high school students, which could also include neurodiversity, albeit not overly complicated. If nothing else, the curriculum would offer students an idea/clue as to whether they’re emotionally/mentally compatible with the immense responsibility and strains of parenthood.)
When around their neurotypical peers, young people with an autism spectrum disorder typically feel compelled to “camouflage,” a term used to describe their attempts at appearing to naturally fit in, which is known to cause their already high anxiety and/or depression levels to worsen. And, of course, this exacerbation also applies to the high rate of suicide among ASD people.