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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 and welcome to the forums. I’ve struggled with anxiety for many years and only now in my 50s uncovered what was behind things. Being irritable at least for me was all part of it. Not sure about the timing element from my side, for me it’s pretty general perhaps worse with events etc going on. Hope things pick up for you

  • in reply to White_Dragon

      cool profile pic.

    Thanks for sharing it makes me feel heard. I think the irritability is definitely part of my anxiety. I've been doing tonnes of research on here about autistic burnout and I can see where this has hit throughout my life and maybe the timings are just coincidence (I do look for patterns all the time)

    I've made a plan to tell my employer today (I mask at work) and I'm going back to the GP with the burnout information too. 

    Thanks for replying I really appreciate it Relaxed️ 

  • in reply to Oodlepop

    The embrace autism website also has an ebook you can buy related to burnout and how it compares to depression. It has good information.

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