Depression

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I am curious about how prevelant depression is amongst the various ASDs, so which one fits you?

I've ALWAYS had problems w/"interpersonal relationships". NEVER could keep a job past the 90 day mark. Was diagnosed w/post-partum depression after my son was born (15 yrs ago). That diagnosis was changed to clinical depression after a year. Then they tried calling it bi-polar disorder (but the drugs never worked) and then in 2000 diagnosed with Adult ADD and THEN in 2008 finally diagnosed with Aspergers...WHAT A JOURNEY

I've had periods of depression since 15. But I also suffer exhaustion and like to withdraw anyway. It was only last year at age 40 that I got a diagnosis of Aspergers.

Diagnosed with depression at the age of 8. Runs like Usain Bolt through both sides of my family.

Never formally diagnosed with AS, but I'm sure I have it.

I'm the lonely non-depressed person so far.

The person at the bio-feedback place said that my brainwaves were "depressed brainwaves" and I don't fit the depression diagnosis at all. Some doctor's, no stereotype, but I have noticed male doctors do this, get the idea that a patient has a condition in their mind and can't get it out. When I told him that I didn't have depression he said "Oh, it's because you're young, it probably will present it's self as lack of motivation and lack of interest when you are younger". That's not like it all for me. The other guy that I talked to at the place told me that it COULD be an indicator of depression and some people won't have it. I'm the opposite of lack of motivation, I am extremely passionate about lots of things. I find it hard to motivate myself in environments that don't have a lot of stimuli, though. However, once a get into an environment with stimuli, I'm fine!

Chronic depression sucks. Compound that with my Asperger's, and I become a recluse edging on hikikomori territory. Celexa helps though.

I said that I don't, but for some years in high school I definitely did (14-17)... just not anymore.

I have AS as far as I know, and I have experianced symptoms of major depression for as long as I can remember. I just did not know what it was until I attemted suicide at the age of 15. I went to counseling and I thought it helped but it did not really...even so I tried counseling a few times since then and it still does not work. So I have come to the conlusion that I have to come to terms with the fact the depression is not going anywhere.

I have classic autism and have depression. Its no fun. In fact I am in the middle of a major depressive episode right now as a matter of fact. The only interests left is my friends (someone to talk to.. the only people to talk to) and the Internet. That is it. I am not playing my games, not drawing, not building my airplanes no nothing. I am hopeless. It is because my mom's health is hell. I am also having problems with people talking to me in my head. I won't go into it now. I actually was diagnosed as having schizoaffective disorder bipolar type. Mainly depression rather than the mania.

I have Asperger's and I have had depression but I do not have it now.

I have both AS and Depression.

I'm not depressed at all. The only time I was depressed was due to stress. Other than that, I'm usually just neutral. School is my priority, and as long as everything is going fine in my classes and I have time to myself, I'm content with the way things are.

AS, no depression.
I'm lucky though.
Depression and Suicide run on both sides of my family, along with lots of other fun mental illnesses

In my experience, even during my saddest and most difficult of times, I don't get depressed.
Overwhelmed? Anxious? Phobic? Paranoid? Strung-out? Confused? Panicked? Frazzled? sure....
but not depressed
I'm not exactly sure why...

AS + depression (not sure if it's chronic as of yet, but I've been on medication for the past two years). Originally I guess I dismissed parts of the AS as symptomatic of my depression. I've also got anxiety issues, but I don't know if that would count as clinical (not on any medication specific for it, although I was for a while feeling much better on a combination antidepressant-antianxiety med... but it very occasionally seemed to stop working and kept me from sleeping properly).

I only really felt the depression starting in high school, but my mother once told me I'd "always been this way." I wonder now if it wasn't just some off the less social AS parts of me she was really seeing; my parents always had a hard time understanding why I didn't want to go out with my friends all the time as a kid, especially since my brothers did constantly.

The combination does suck. I've found that where the symptoms of each overlap the other, they multiply rather than add. If you already have restricted interests, depression will make it so you have almost no interest in anything outside of a few small areas. This in turn makes it even more of chore to socialize since most everything people will talk about will bore you and just make you want to be alone rather than with a bunch of people you can't possibly relate to. Then you add total lack of motivation to the already existent tendency towards inertia and procrastination. And if you already have a flat affect most of the time due to AS/autism, depression will take all the energy required to "fake" an emotional reaction and try to fit in away.