anxiety,depression ?

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How many Aspies have been diagnosed with Anxiety and depression, and do you feel you would have the anxiety and depression if we were better understood and accepted by society as we are?

I have. Yes, I do think I got the anxiety because of trying too hard to fit in with people. I was depressed when I was 13 and I did feel that way because my family wanted me to be different.

a pattern: parent has expectations - expectations go unmet - parent feels frustration and disappointment - parent expresses or tries to suppress (yet really expresses on an unspoken level) disappoinment - parent lowers expectations .... this negative feedback loop becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy over time.

there is the YOU your parents expect and the YOU they think they see (neither real) as projected onto and experienced by you, and the YOU who is the real YOU.

the three YOUs are experienced as one, resulting in inner conflict: anxiety and depression. with experience and maturity the real YOU will emerge no longer confounded with the projected YOU images.

in a way there is an advantage to this. if a person meets or exceeds parents expectations the projected parental YOU images will be in harmony and the real YOU may never emerge from this positive illusion.

on the other hand, if parents have low or zero expectations so the projected YOU image is shallow or weak, the real YOU is never challenged to exceed status quo so potential is not realized and real YOU may never emerge.

so to summarize anxiety and depression are healthy signs that you are real.

Yes I have been diagnosed Depression and Anxiety disorder. I feel I have had a life long struggle to be understood. I am a loving caring person, if only people gave me the time to think and respond appropriately to situations that I feel uncomfortable about. People don't understand our problems thoughroughly enough and don't give us enough time to think and respond appropriately before labeling or pre judging us as incapeable of genuine social interactions with feeling.

I have been diagnosed with anxiety and depression. I have struggled with it for MANY years. I have the depression in check right now but the anxiety has always been out of control. It's pretty general it doesn't have to pertain to social situations. It can be excited anxiety too. I remember when my parents bought me a new car for my graduation and I got so nerved up that I puked. Why? I don't know. I know it's irrational but it still happens. It's like my nerves are shot.

Yes I do have depression and anxiety. I think it does have a lot to do with too much failure with social situations. I've always had a problem with anxiety since I was 8 so I think even if I was NT it'd still be there but maybe not as strong. My depression on the otherhand probably wouldnt be there or not nearly as strong if I wasnt in the situations I am in.

I think most of us do.

I'm diagnosed with Depressive Disorder NOS and Generalized Anxiety Disorder.