Autism assessments for ASD and depression association

A lot of the private places seem to be adult focused, although no-one seems to define this. It maybe taken as 16-18.

Note the autistic burnout may appear to be depression from the outside. Both can co-occur simultaneously and in my opinion (and experience) sorting out the burnout is the most important.

A prolonged period of stress, such as exams or bullying, could do it. 

If I am allowed to mention someone private, you could try join psychology.co.uk who specialises in female presentation. She saw me when I was burnt out, dysregulated and emotional and managed ok (although I am not female or young). I did it in-person but I believe online is also possible. It is all to NICE guidelines so would be accepted by a GP.

You can email and then have a brief call, up to 15 minutes, to decide if she can help you. It is for adults, but as mentioned this is not defined.

(I have no commercial relationship or sponsorship, so this just a personal suggestion.)

Hello Stuart

thank you for the information. This is a bit of a minefield for us all as new to it but bullying and exams have both been prevalent in the last 2 years

if you’re able to without impacting your own mental health could you describe burnout symptoms briefly please?

re psychology today. That link appears to go to a generic domain. Was there a specific person that helped you yhat we could get in touch with please?

once again thank you for responding

David

The text editor may have added a space, it is one word "joinpsychology.co.uk", itbis Jo in Psychology compressed.

I don't have time to type much. There is an ebook you can but at "embrace-autism.com" . I bought it.

"Autistic burnout is a syndrome conceptualised as resulting from chronic life stress and a mismatch of expectations and abilities without adequate supports. It is characterized by pervasive, long term (typically 3+ months) exhaustion, loss of function, and reduced tolerance to stimulus."

You have executive function issues and bandwidth to do things drops. Additional stress becomes unmanageable. People want to be close but you gave to be alone, a lot. Socialising is very hard. 

I have had it at least 3 times. It takes 6 or more months to recover. You are fragile for a while. Your thinking is dysregulated and you may fixate on things or get things out of perspective.

If you have past trauma, you can enjoy looping on it. It makes you think of ending it all, which I came close to. It is not just being a bit down.

You nervous system is overloaded and you start hypervigilence and seeing threats. Criticism is very hard to take, you shut down, become irritable. Some you are aware of, sone you are not.

You are just in survival mode. Drink offers some temporary relief, for me, but makes it worse overall.

While you are tired, if fight or flight is too active you can't sleep. You kidneys also may not slow at night so you get up for the toilet 3 or 4 times, I thought I had diabetes. A blood test showed various hormones awry, including chronic stress markers.

I also ended up with eye problems, CSR, last time.

Not being diagnosed it is disastrous for relationships and it seriously adversely affected my life. Something I have had some trouble coming to terms with 

I don't think it is well known. Certainly GPs will have no idea.

The text editor may have added a space, it is one word "joinpsychology.co.uk", itbis Jo in Psychology compressed.

I don't have time to type much. There is an ebook you can but at "embrace-autism.com" . I bought it.

"Autistic burnout is a syndrome conceptualised as resulting from chronic life stress and a mismatch of expectations and abilities without adequate supports. It is characterized by pervasive, long term (typically 3+ months) exhaustion, loss of function, and reduced tolerance to stimulus."

You have executive function issues and bandwidth to do things drops. Additional stress becomes unmanageable. People want to be close but you gave to be alone, a lot. Socialising is very hard. 

I have had it at least 3 times. It takes 6 or more months to recover. You are fragile for a while. Your thinking is dysregulated and you may fixate on things or get things out of perspective.

If you have past trauma, you can enjoy looping on it. It makes you think of ending it all, which I came close to. It is not just being a bit down.

You nervous system is overloaded and you start hypervigilence and seeing threats. Criticism is very hard to take, you shut down, become irritable. Some you are aware of, sone you are not.

You are just in survival mode. Drink offers some temporary relief, for me, but makes it worse overall.

While you are tired, if fight or flight is too active you can't sleep. You kidneys also may not slow at night so you get up for the toilet 3 or 4 times, I thought I had diabetes. A blood test showed various hormones awry, including chronic stress markers.

I also ended up with eye problems, CSR, last time.

Not being diagnosed it is disastrous for relationships and it seriously adversely affected my life. Something I have had some trouble coming to terms with 

I don't think it is well known. Certainly GPs will have no idea.