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Kjas
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03 Mar 2012, 8:37 pm

"It would maybe get me disability and medicaid which I have to be on disability to qualify for which might allow me to try and get some help if I can get over my total distrust of anything related to the government system enough to at least deal with that. Though I don't know if I should focus on the AS, Depression, Anxiety or PTSD or all of them at once. Also I don't know if there will be a next time for college but I am not sure I just know I dropped out due to being in a school environment making me anxious and causing anxiety attacks because the incident in highschool that caused the ptsd. So that kind of made it hard to focus, not to mention since the first thing I remember about the whole thing was reading a book up until I realized what was going on reading can trigger stuff I do not want to think about, I mean I was having to have a drink before a lot of reading I had to do for college just so I could read without being distracted by all those thoughts and memories and such."

I daresay the AS, PTSD, Anxiety and Depression are all interrelated and not separate issues. Treating them as separate issues would likely not work.

I would focus on finding a psychologist with a specialty in AS, because not only will they know how to deal with you, they likely will have dealt with the rest of it as well. They won't treat you a person with a lot of problems or try to ignore your AS or simply prescribe meds to you.

Maybe college isn't your thing but it may be helpful to be on disability until you figure out what you want to do or until you find a job.


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03 Mar 2012, 8:47 pm

Kjas wrote:
"It would maybe get me disability and medicaid which I have to be on disability to qualify for which might allow me to try and get some help if I can get over my total distrust of anything related to the government system enough to at least deal with that. Though I don't know if I should focus on the AS, Depression, Anxiety or PTSD or all of them at once. Also I don't know if there will be a next time for college but I am not sure I just know I dropped out due to being in a school environment making me anxious and causing anxiety attacks because the incident in highschool that caused the ptsd. So that kind of made it hard to focus, not to mention since the first thing I remember about the whole thing was reading a book up until I realized what was going on reading can trigger stuff I do not want to think about, I mean I was having to have a drink before a lot of reading I had to do for college just so I could read without being distracted by all those thoughts and memories and such."

I daresay the AS, PTSD, Anxiety and Depression are all interrelated and not separate issues. Treating them as separate issues would likely not work.

I would focus on finding a psychologist with a specialty in AS, because not only will they know how to deal with you, they likely will have dealt with the rest of it as well. They won't treat you a person with a lot of problems or try to ignore your AS or simply prescribe meds to you.

Maybe college isn't your thing but it may be helpful to be on disability until you figure out what you want to do or until you find a job.


I guess that makes sense.


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03 Mar 2012, 10:45 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:
kirayng wrote:
questor wrote:
You sound very depressed. You need to be honest with the doc/therapist and tell him/her how depressed and crappy you are feeling. There are meds that can help. I feel that most of the time people should avoid mind meds, but in a severe case of depression, as you seem to have, it is sometimes necessary to take meds to treat the condition.

You don't really seem to be trying to get the help you need, though. Rather, you seem to be wallowing in your depression pit by choice. That's not healthy, and is a turn-off to the people around you.

You also need to do stuff on your own to help distract yourself from your problems, and keep yourself occupied.

- Listen to and/or play music
- Exercise
- Read funny stories
- Hobbies
- Volunteer with charities. There are people out there who are worse off than you, who could really use your help.
- Join a club
- Take courses, either in person or online. Some of the online courses are free.
- Watch funny TV shows or DVDs
- Surf the I-net
- Get a job. Try the employment agencies. If you don't have a particular type of work in mind tell them you want to temp for a while, so you can try different types of work.

Now stop the pity party, get some help from your doc/therapist, and get off your duff and do stuff!


I don't think OP is after a diagnosis, she already said she suffers from depression and her therapists aren't helping.... Thanks for trying to help tho. :)

edit: sorry of course I'm speaking out of line for someone else, but I just thought this took the thread in a wrong turn, I don't think anyone was being overly negative, we're supporting each other.


That is ok I cannot expect everyone to understand all of this you were right about the not being helped by therapy though....getting a diagnoses and disability might, and if I can manage I would not mind maybe finding some seasonal work or part time work or whatever. But i don't like the wording as it once again implies 'you're just not trying hard enough, and other people have it worse so what are you complaining about.' maybe that was not this posters intention but it was kinda how it made me feel.

If I had a nickel for every time people confused the need to vent with willfully "wallowing in misery" or being intentionally difficult in some way or another I'd be a very rich person. It's funny because if I just internalize everything and pretend to be content they generally don't even notice there's anything wrong until you finally break down over something and then they're perplexed because they can't see what was building up and only notice proverbial the straw that breaks the camels back. It does give the impression that people don't actually care about helping you feel better, they just want you to shut up and suffer in silence so that they don't have to think about it.