Do you think co-morbids should be treated separately?

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No. I believe they should all be treated simultaneously because they're all caused by the same root digestive imbalance.

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Exactly! So, until we can find the root cause we have to treat the symptoms individually. We do not know what came first the chicken or the egg.

This goes for many types of disorder or illnesses. I has tinnitus, no one knows exactly what causes it or how to treat it for each person. It will never go away but I can learn how to manage it. Once the root cause is identified then they may or may not be able to come up with a treatment for it. Or thinking " out side the box " is tinnitus just a symptom of something else, like allergies.

So! is autism just a symptom of something else? Who knows.... There are so many ways to look at it.

If we have a headache and are not able to find the root cause then we can only treat the headache with a pain reliever. If we know the root cause is needing reading glasses then we can just get a pair of glasses.

Never felt that way for me because at least some of the people with comorbids that I know can pass as normal but tic or have really suicidal tendencies.

I think that comorbids should be considered separately from autism to avoid attributing all problems to autism only.

I disagree that we're treating problems. Or maybe that's what happens, but we should be treating people who happen to have problems including comorbid problems.

Look at problems of autism, e.g. poor social cognition, and problems of a co-morbid, e.g. social anxiety, separately in a person, consider how they may be linked, e.g. poor social cognition ---> social mistakes ---> social anxiety ---> avoidance of social situations, but also how they can be separated, e.g. poor social cognition doesn't necessarily cause social anxiety, as there are plenty of people with poor social cognition without social anxiety, and the most meaningful way to move forward is to focus on the social anxiety that has developed to a disabling level and try to reduce it. The anxiety may have been caused by social cognition problems over a long period of time, but that doesn't mean that attributing it to autism and social cognition as the root cause is a good way to move forward in treating and reducing it.

no,am not agreeing that comorbids shoud be treated as one and the same thing but they shoud keep the autism in the back of their mind as it does 'flavour' a lot of comorbids.

am fed up of depression not being understood,because am not verbaly able to communicate it to other people and it shows in severe challenging behavior and other negative ways, people have always blamed it on the autism and intelectual disability.
last september when had trashed a residential home due to se and was detained in a learning [US=intelectual] disability secure hospital,they blamed the autism and ID and was never given MH support,they even went as far as to take away half the anti depressent and wondered why behavior had gotten even worse two weeks later,their lack of seperating comorbids was noticibly visible on the diagnosis report [scan of it here];
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someone doesnt simply get sectioned due to mild intelectual disability.
the last page included everything that had already been rightfuly diagnosed with but didnt include any of the mental health conditions; severe major depressive disorder, pyschosis, reactive attachment disorder.

am still fighting to get the MH side recognised.