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An app to help prevent suicide in ASD?? Comments please

DaveAsperg

I have been working with other major players to develop an app to help Aspies with suicidal ideation as I have found psychotherapy and antidepressants haven't helped me at all, but others with Lived Experience can say very useful things. 

I feel "the experts" often dominate the conversation and always feel they know best, but an app with power to the Aspies to comment and advise??

What do you think??

Those involved include Prof Simon Baron Cohen and Sarah Cassidy ( check them out if you don't know them)

Recent post  such as "I don't enjoy anything anymore" indicate many of us ruminate on negative thoughts??? do we

Parents

  • an application isn't going to do anything for someone with crippling anxiety, depression or stress. It's like the mindfulness stuff that failing mental health trust send out in leaflets thats tell you to take a bath, have a cup of tea, splash cold water in your face or have a cold shower

    What people in that situation need is face to face peer support to help the individual learn coping strategies' in a proactive way to help them get through stressful and anxiety inducing tasks. That is accessible, affordable and doesn't have a waiting list of over a year. 

    Talking to someone how you feel isn't going to help you process it unless your with someone else with the same neurological processes then you have the barrier for many on the spectrum who have problems understanding and processing emotions

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  • an application isn't going to do anything for someone with crippling anxiety, depression or stress. It's like the mindfulness stuff that failing mental health trust send out in leaflets thats tell you to take a bath, have a cup of tea, splash cold water in your face or have a cold shower

    What people in that situation need is face to face peer support to help the individual learn coping strategies' in a proactive way to help them get through stressful and anxiety inducing tasks. That is accessible, affordable and doesn't have a waiting list of over a year. 

    Talking to someone how you feel isn't going to help you process it unless your with someone else with the same neurological processes then you have the barrier for many on the spectrum who have problems understanding and processing emotions

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  • in reply to Blue

    not me. I like research based comments of fact with numbers and further options if one route doesn't work.

    I have found face to face stuff has been extremely damaging, got me arrested and prosecuted, which would never have happened with an app.

    Mindfullness instructions written by an Aspie for suicide prevention are a rarity that I would welcome. 

    I feel we Aspies have skills and understanding, that would enable us to produce extremely useful online advice articles, that neurotypicals cannot do.

    Complaints systems now just send you around in circles

    And where is the peer expert support? The research has not been done, the peers are just on here and vary in age and demographics

  • in reply to Blue

    what depresses me is (mostly) my circumstances and not the condition itself.

    If you've written an app that makes an aspie's situation better, so that one is not at the end of every queue with no money, (or worse being squeezed out by some brainless overly socialised normie, yeah, that might be helpful to someone...