Confused, new to this. (Re-post)

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Joined: 16 Oct 2009
Gender: Male
Posts: 4
Location: Florida, USA

18 Oct 2009, 2:04 pm

Hello, I've just been diagnosed (at 23), after having to leave college because of a really bad bout with OCD. I've spent months now in CBT and therapy and after seeing a Psychiatrist was diagnosed "Very high functioning aspergers". I only know what I'm reading online, and I'm starting to understand what this is all about, but I'm having problems, I don't know what text to read, what things to watch for, as I named this post I'm really confused. I'm male, have a beautiful and loving girlfriend, multiple obsessions about things. I've never had sensory overload before until I quit drinking and smoking (not cigarettes), I'm still in therapy and medicated for OCD and depression after spending months locked in my room because of it. I just don't get this, I was living a pretty OK life before aspergers, maybe it was there the whole time? I don't know how this works. All of a sudden I started to have sensory overload after months of horrifying OCD, including depersonalization, crazy mood shifts, and some crazy neurological responses to things, emotional tags of things switching on me (standing in my yard and feeling like I was in another town I had visited hundreds of miles away).

As you can see, I'm confused, I want my life back.

Can anyone tell me where to start?

I appreciate your time.

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