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Therapies for people with Aspergers?

super-meg

Is there such a thing?

I'm now refusing medication because I believe the doctor just wants to put me on them and it will all be fine but its not a long term solution so when I came off them again I'd be back to square 1. He told me therapies won't work but I told him what I need is somebody who is aspergers trained that can teach me the coping skills I so clearly need so he is looking into it....

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  • Hi super-meg.

    I am in a similar position myself. All my life I have been anxious, although, as a child, my anxieties were managable and were not all consuming. This changed shortly after I started secondary school. The OCD got worse, as did my phobias, and new ones developed. I was not diagnosed with AS at this stage, although my parents had begun to think that I had it.

    Eventually I agreed to seek therapy because, at this point, I hardly left the house at all - I was 19 years old. I was  diagnosed with OCD, but the therapy was not helping me to overcome it. I then came across Aspergers on an internet site, and immediately knew that my parents were right. It took a long time to get a diagnosis on the NHS, but I got there in the end.

    I was allocated a support worker, who works for the local autism charity, and I have come a long way since then. But I still experience extreme inner anxiety and tension, as well as still having many OCD behaviours. I recently had a booster course of CBT, but again, it did not work. I have also had physiotherapy, which simply made my anxiety worse, and I am getting desperate. Will I ever be anxiety free?. The NHS has a duty of care, and I have simply not received the best care from them because, since diagnosis, I have had no contact with an autism professional. Taking drugs is not an option- the very idea of putting a pill into my mouth causes anxiety, and drugs do not get to the root of the problem.

     

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  • Hi super-meg.

    I am in a similar position myself. All my life I have been anxious, although, as a child, my anxieties were managable and were not all consuming. This changed shortly after I started secondary school. The OCD got worse, as did my phobias, and new ones developed. I was not diagnosed with AS at this stage, although my parents had begun to think that I had it.

    Eventually I agreed to seek therapy because, at this point, I hardly left the house at all - I was 19 years old. I was  diagnosed with OCD, but the therapy was not helping me to overcome it. I then came across Aspergers on an internet site, and immediately knew that my parents were right. It took a long time to get a diagnosis on the NHS, but I got there in the end.

    I was allocated a support worker, who works for the local autism charity, and I have come a long way since then. But I still experience extreme inner anxiety and tension, as well as still having many OCD behaviours. I recently had a booster course of CBT, but again, it did not work. I have also had physiotherapy, which simply made my anxiety worse, and I am getting desperate. Will I ever be anxiety free?. The NHS has a duty of care, and I have simply not received the best care from them because, since diagnosis, I have had no contact with an autism professional. Taking drugs is not an option- the very idea of putting a pill into my mouth causes anxiety, and drugs do not get to the root of the problem.

     

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