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Diagnosed with anxiety and depression and autism

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Anyone else being diagnosed with anxiety and depression along with autism? How do you cope, what are your coping mechanisms? I find the only thing that relaxes me when I’m feeling stressed or anxious is colouring. I obsess over buying colouring books and pens I must have hundreds haha. I find it difficult to get motivated to do things other than colouring. I feel like I isolate myself from the outside world and would much rather stay at home in my own comforts. Would love to know how others get on and hear how it effects people 

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  • I have anxiety, depression and autism too - I find colouring helps as well!

    I've had CBT for both my anxiety and depression and it seems to help (need to remember to use the techniques though) 

    Some things I've done to help myself are:

    1. tried to see the positive rather than the negative - it does take practise but it helps

    2. focused on my sensory needs and ways to still do things but with adjustments (e.g. headphones when it gets noisy / too much which I can listen to music out of)

    3. keep reminding myself even if I just get up, showered and just hang around the house (on bad days), it doesn't matter because I'm focusing on what  my body needs at that time

    4. mindfulness (I use Headspace app) 

    these are a few things I do 

    Most important is to take care of yourself and what your body needs 

  • in reply to pinkchocoholic

    Morning Pink Choco

    Your techniques are very helpful, I often struggle with anxiety and this morning it is particularly bad. I don’t know whether it it is common word for what I experience at this time of day but I refer to it as waking anxiety. Ive built an explanation around the waking mind and body experiencing uncommonly large quantities of cortisol and adrenaline. Looking back over the years, as the last time I experienced this was 2019 when caring full time for my mum, it is Im sure really caused by expecting, and usually actually experiencing, bad things to happen today.

    I feel mistrusted by my other human, invalidated and extremely scared. And trapped. 

    Im attending to my sensory needs as best as possible, pleasant calm music, comfortable chair, getting what light this grey day allows. But truly just waiting to drowned by the approaching tsunami Cry

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  • in reply to pinkchocoholic

    Morning Pink Choco

    Your techniques are very helpful, I often struggle with anxiety and this morning it is particularly bad. I don’t know whether it it is common word for what I experience at this time of day but I refer to it as waking anxiety. Ive built an explanation around the waking mind and body experiencing uncommonly large quantities of cortisol and adrenaline. Looking back over the years, as the last time I experienced this was 2019 when caring full time for my mum, it is Im sure really caused by expecting, and usually actually experiencing, bad things to happen today.

    I feel mistrusted by my other human, invalidated and extremely scared. And trapped. 

    Im attending to my sensory needs as best as possible, pleasant calm music, comfortable chair, getting what light this grey day allows. But truly just waiting to drowned by the approaching tsunami Cry

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