Autism/Depression

Thanks, hardly slept, just feel so down, looking at the symptoms of Bpd yesterday, I can identify with it. My daughter has it. I've been through trauma in my life and was having counselling, something she didn't like me having

Thanks, got a doctors appointment later to talk about it, just been to see the copd nurse, been given stronger inhaler. All because I was a cleaner, never smoked

Thank you

Went to the doctors, she was reluctant to refer me , because of the label, what good will it do. I said I wanted to know. I had written some notes from the website mind to say this is how I feel. She said change my med to sertaline, I've been on that, citalprham, and now fluxotine. They don't work. She seems to think it was anxiety because I was nervous, and not good at explaining. So I don't know if I be seen, I've been through healthy minds, said I needed more than that, had counselling.

She saw me less than 5 minutes.

Hi @Andi66 I have found mental health services rubbish it’s almost a nonexistent service, Psychatrist put me on practically every medication going over the years, some medications helped for short periods and some didn’t help at all, all medications had awful side effects that I just had to bear for weeks to months at a time. They now refuse to give me any medication as they have said that I am treatment resistant, so I got put on a waiting list for talking therapies, I am still waiting over a year later with no news! I have already done several therapies over the years too, but willing to take any help I can get. I have personally found that Lorazepam or diazepam work best for me, better than any antipsychotics or SSRIs diazepam and lorazepam calm me down, they ease my racing thoughts and I genuinely feel relaxed, they also help with my severe insomnia, best part with these tablets is that I don’t have any side effects or withdrawal symptoms (as I take them responsibly) and I don’t have to take these tablets every day, I only take them when I am having a really bad day. Hope you are feeling abit better now ❤️

evening everyone,been reading a few pages of the thread.

To answer the initial question. I was diagnosed with chronic clinical depression a very very long time before the autism.

I was diagnosed with depression while still at school 14 or 15 which would of been around 1996.

since then To this day I have depression for about half of every year on average, Christmas is always a problem.

I was diagnosed with tourettes and adhd in 1999.

FINALLY got diagnosed with stage 2 bordering stage 3 autism (ironically 8 years ago today) age 34.

she was an absolute sweetheart and made me feel so comfortable and ask anything I liked about her diagnosis.

Hi @Nightcity sorry to hear about the depression that you suffer with, I too suffer badly with depression, Christmas can be especially hard for me too. I sincerely wish that there was a quick fix or a cure for severe depression, such a cruel thing to suffer with. Sending you kind wishes