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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Anxiety help |
| stevet |
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Posted: 18 Feb 2018, 12:28 pm
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| Thanks nick, I was taking buspar for a few weeks but thought i'd have to stop once i started on the citalopram.I've never liked taken any meds but i'm getting desperate to stop this crippling anxiety,my mind just keeps hitting me with negative thoughts of the past and fearing the future feeling like... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Anxiety help |
| stevet |
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Posted: 17 Feb 2018, 12:44 pm
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Replies: 2
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| I've suffered from anxiety all my life although only in the last few years i've really identified the symptoms as that,ie pins and needles all over and feeling het up tense when stressed or put under pressure,but recently over the last 6 weeks after the xmas holiday which was very stressfull my anxi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: late to the party |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2018, 7:55 am
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Replies: 3
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| I must admit I think i was in denial or just thought i was ok ,i remember even a friend of mine when i was in my early twenties snapping at me once when i wound him up and calling me an autistic f...k and it just went over my head at the time and I just laughed it off but looking back now i think so... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: late to the party |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2018, 7:32 am
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Replies: 3
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| I am diagnosed with moderate autism only last year , but what freaks me out is all these other conditions that get talked about on here like everyone knows about them and easily recognises them and is diagnosed with them ,maybe it's my age mid fourties and i was never diagnosed with asd early in lif... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: I don't want the flu I don't want it!! !! |
| stevet |
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Posted: 20 Jan 2018, 5:56 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 371
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| You could try vicks first defence nasal spray ,it's supposed to stop colds from developing into fall blown virus and says on the paperwork you can take it even if you don't have first signs of a cold if you feel your at risk.Not sure how good it is I bought a bottle just in case . |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Asperger's: is it going to be worse with age? |
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Posted: 05 Jan 2018, 3:37 pm
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Replies: 31
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| Not sure if aspergers got worse with age but my stress/anxiety levels have.When I was in my twenties living at home ect i never really worried about anything ,now I have a car,house 4 hour work commute ,relatives getting older my body starting to creak already and the expectation that I can handle a... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: not capable |
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Posted: 05 Jan 2018, 5:23 am
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Replies: 11
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| How many aspies feel that they are trully not capable or mature enough to have a relationship,i mean I know some will say you can work on yourself get experience in dating ect but i for one feel that i've never felt like i can open up to anyone or be intermit with anyone, and i almost see showing af... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: sabotage |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2017, 7:27 am
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Replies: 0
Views: 180
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| I don't know if this is an asd trait or ocd or anxiety related but most of the time i'm worrying or ruminating over some issue and whether it be a problem with an object say gas boiler or electrics or even health issue my mind will stick with these thoughts and I can't seem to help going on the inte... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: trouble saying affectionate things? |
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Posted: 22 Oct 2017, 3:14 am
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Replies: 49
Views: 1,968
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| Total agree with the name thing, I find it too personal and get really freaked out if someone I am not really close to uses my name, i think I always think people using my name are trying to get round me or have me over in some way maybe because those sales type people are encouraged too address pos... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Effing kids in the library |
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Posted: 09 Sep 2017, 6:18 am
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Replies: 34
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| Yep I hear you joe 90, I was happy to see the back of the school holidays this week specially on the train coming home from work in the early evenings the train carriage would turn into almost some kind of zoo/circus for an hour coming away from london even with my ear plugs in I could not sleep.Yes... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: my extreme ocd life |
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Posted: 22 Aug 2017, 4:46 pm
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Replies: 1
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| New series started this evening on channel 5 uk tv ,just happened to switch over and see it.I have some ocd specially when stressed and do get intrusive thoughts on occasion but it was quite upsetting to see the impact it had on these peoples lifes and the different types of ocd routines and rituals... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Thinking about ear defenders -- what are they like? |
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Posted: 20 Aug 2017, 10:04 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 939
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| I use a pair of these 3m E-A-R UF01014 Ultrafit X Earplugs ,they are great if you want to cancel out everything .They have very good cancelling at low mid and high freq ,I wear them on the train to work so I can sleep ,specially good at the moment to numb the screaming kids and babies travelling on ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: executive non function |
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Posted: 05 Aug 2017, 5:41 pm
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Replies: 31
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| your probably right pieplup ,when posting those observations looking back at that time now I was really quite down and maybe worn out ,seem to go through phases of this and right now i'm kind of ok and not dwelling so much on the issues mentioned, however i'm sure they are still present but my mood ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: executive non function |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2017, 12:53 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,738
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| Thanks for the replies, I guess i've always lived like this so just didn't even notice or it almost seemed normal for me ,however for some reason recently this has really got to me and now i notice it all the time & it really gets me down not even knowing a way of improving this ,not sure if med... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: executive non function |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2017, 3:10 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 1,738
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| I understand how aspergers affects most folks on a daily basis with relationships and connecting with people and anxiety issues plus depression which I suffer them all but the real overlying problem for me which keeps me from doing much at all is executive function issues and having to think every d... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: more notice |
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Posted: 23 Jul 2017, 12:34 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 397
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| I guess I was asking whether executive function /dyspraxia is happening to me all the time but do i only realise it when i'm in a bad mood ie getting angry frustrated with carrying out tasks .Maybe I need to wear a cam all day and see if it varies only sometimes I'm sure i may have done tasks ect wi... |
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