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babybird
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04 Jan 2014, 7:39 pm

To me it looks as though you are experiencing some kind of trauma which has been brought on by a bad experience you have had.

I say this because I understand that you recently lost your job through being bullied.

You have last your faith in humanity.

Once you have found the strength within yourself to be able to move on from this you will be fine.

I am not certain that medication is the answer.


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04 Jan 2014, 7:42 pm

mouthyb wrote:
One of the more productive things I've learned to do is to try and let go of unsolvable problems--I do have to keep reminding myself to do it, but sometimes it's not you, it's them, and it's appropriate to 'give' the problem back to them. Sometimes there is literally nothing I can do to make things better (and, frankly, after the fact is a bad time to 'fix' anything). In those cases, I try to remind myself of what is happening now, to disrupt a tendency to keep at "why did this happen/what did I do this time/why am I so messed up" species of thoughts.

That's great advice. Thanks for sharing. Makes a lot of sense to me.


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04 Jan 2014, 7:50 pm

It sounds like problem in motivational brain function. I don't have this problem, but more like opposite, if I have an idear that I think about a lot, I have to do it, put the thought into actions, or else I can't stand it. Motivational problems could be related to asd, but before asd, I would consider depression or adhd as the source of the problem.


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05 Jan 2014, 7:20 am

qawer wrote:
Is being trapped in your own head/mind (i.e. constantly analyzing life instead of living it) more a consequence of

- A depressed Asperger mind (e.g. constantly trying to solve social issues in one's mind analytically)

or

- Aspergers Syndrome itself (i.e. something all people with AS do constantly no matter depression-status due to for instance sensory-overload)


Analysing anything and everything is the nature of the aspie beast, imo...
I luv this aspect of myself and gain an enormous pleasure in concept development/contemplation...

This is not me being depressed...
This is me being in a state of euphoria... ;)

This not the same as a thought loop that I have no control over...
I find that tedious and I feel trapped when that happens...
It hardly ever does these days...thank the gods...