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Struggling with anxiety

ihoardjars

Hello everyone, I'm so glad I've found this community I've been desperately searching for an autistic support group for ages. I've been in mental health support groups, but I've noticed that neurotypical mental health is very different to neurodivergent mental health. I feel like I need a different community that actually understands autism and our particular needs. 

My anxiety has been flaring up a lot lately, I think it's because I'm dealing with a lot of change the last few months. Change has always been really difficult for me, but this year has been particularly hard. I don't know if it's because I have realised I am autistic or if I've just been overloaded this year. I am so worried that I'm going to have a bad meltdown or shutdown. I wish I could turn the anxiety off, it's just been too much right now. Does anyone have anything helpful they do when feeling anxious or overwhelmed?

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  • Hi I've just found this community as well. I'm sorry to hear you're struggling so much right now. Anxiety really sucks, I suffer with it all the time and it's rubbish.

    I get you with the mental health groups. I've had mental health intervention before but they didn't understand the autism at all and it made me a lot worse. I wish there was a neurodiverse group near me I feel like that would be a big help.

    When my anxiety starts to get bad I try to preoccupy myself with the things I enjoy most. It's better to distract your mind than sit and think so that's what I try to do. Sometimes I can lose myself in a fun film like Toy Story or a good book. Or I will play video games they are a brilliant distraction.

    The time just flies when I do these things and I suddenly realise I'm not anxious anymore. I hope you can find some things that work for you. You might like to try meditation as well. It doesn't work for everyone but it might for you.

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  • Hi I've just found this community as well. I'm sorry to hear you're struggling so much right now. Anxiety really sucks, I suffer with it all the time and it's rubbish.

    I get you with the mental health groups. I've had mental health intervention before but they didn't understand the autism at all and it made me a lot worse. I wish there was a neurodiverse group near me I feel like that would be a big help.

    When my anxiety starts to get bad I try to preoccupy myself with the things I enjoy most. It's better to distract your mind than sit and think so that's what I try to do. Sometimes I can lose myself in a fun film like Toy Story or a good book. Or I will play video games they are a brilliant distraction.

    The time just flies when I do these things and I suddenly realise I'm not anxious anymore. I hope you can find some things that work for you. You might like to try meditation as well. It doesn't work for everyone but it might for you.

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