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Asperger’s and mental health issues

Meg
over 3 years ago

Hi

I’ve recently been diagnosed with aspergers type autism, I’m kind of trying to understand this and I’m getting there but what I’m really struggling with is something the specialist said in the session.

I discussed my past mental health issues with him and he mentioned this was a pattern he had seen lots of times before and that ‘it’s most likely all my mental health issues are because of the autism’.

This has made me so angry and I can’t seem to get past it, just wondering if any of you have had any similar experience/ would be able to reach out and discuss with me.

thanks 

Parents
  • over 3 years ago

    This really resonates with me - I’ve had so many labels thrown my way from mental health practitioners who misdiagnosed autism. None ever felt right and the misdirection from professionals caused more stress and anger as their diagnosis didn’t feel a match to my experiences, I felt misunderstood and so disconnected from the world around me. I’m happy to talk openly about all of this - just maybe not in a public forum, given that it covers so much of my medical history Stuck out tongue. That aside I don’t always check through old threads I’ve posted to. It’s probably best to fire me a private message if you want to chat this over :) I’m pretty easy going and open - so it may be useful Slight smile

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  • over 3 years ago

    This really resonates with me - I’ve had so many labels thrown my way from mental health practitioners who misdiagnosed autism. None ever felt right and the misdirection from professionals caused more stress and anger as their diagnosis didn’t feel a match to my experiences, I felt misunderstood and so disconnected from the world around me. I’m happy to talk openly about all of this - just maybe not in a public forum, given that it covers so much of my medical history Stuck out tongue. That aside I don’t always check through old threads I’ve posted to. It’s probably best to fire me a private message if you want to chat this over :) I’m pretty easy going and open - so it may be useful Slight smile

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