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New here....has anyone else experienced this?

Oodlepop

Hello Everyone,

I've never posted on here before and my husband found the online community for me as I'm struggling at the moment.

I was diagnosed with ASD in December 2024, I'm 41 now.

I've struggled with anxiety all my life, been on and off meds since I was 16. I've been to GP and asked to be referred to the local mental health team as I've tried all medication and have a few diagnosis PTSD and OCD (both managed).

In the last 2 months I've been experiencing very intense periods of irritability and panic. I struggle with explaining emotions but the best way I can describe is that I can feel the emotions in my body and it's like a coiled spring and all the energy from the spring is coursing through my body. My thoughts race and I feel completely out of control and just stare into space. I feel like there is no hope and I'm completely lost of how to move forward.


I've been reflecting on this and realised this seems to happen at least 2 times a year around the same times of year since I was 15 during these times I've previously left jobs either because of feeling so out of myself or work becomes too much me to manage. I currently work 2 days a week as a store assistant in a charity shop and I have a massive urge to leave again woman facepalming. I've not brought this up at work yet as I know there isn't anything they can do other than me go off sick which is something I don't really want to do.

I just wondered if anyone else has experienced this kind of feeling?

Thanks in advance for reading this, it's much appreciated x

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  • Hi, I’m my situation it’s different. Sometimes I kinda feel tired but I have a strong anxiety that things will change. That my manager will quit, that I will get sick and have to stay home instead of going to work like always… that there will be new colleagues at work etc. I manage the anxiety by having always the same food. It must be always pasta with sauce. I cook it with my own recipe and it must be always same. Colleagues at work make huge eyes with disbelief or laugh, asking if I eat the same food whole year. So sometimes I feel tired and burnt out, but there is an invisible force that pushes me to always do and have the exact same things and I have huge anxiety that something will change and I have no control over it. 

  • in reply to Alien0n3arth

      I guess the pasta and homemade sauce is something you have complete control of so that makes a lot sense to me as everything else is out of our control even getting unwell etc. Thank you for sharing that with me I appreciate it Blush

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