Mental Illness and Asperger's Syndrome

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ADD

Mild OCD (no constant hand-washing and all that debilitating stuff, but a lot of checking that I locked my door, turned off the oven, turned on my alarm clock, and a bit of anal-retentive perfectionism in general)

Social Phobia/Social Anxiety Disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder




I take Paxil (an SSRI similar to Prozac) for my OCD, Social Phobia, and GAD and I take Concerta (the same stuff as Ritalin except it's in a slow-release pill) of my ADD.

I have to agree. I don't feel like writing anymore about it but in the following topic I basically give a general descrition of my problems.

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I guess I suffer from depression, anxiety, social phobia and I would also have to say OCD and ADD, but I will go for professional analysis to be sure.

Hmmm. How much compulsive hand washing before I'm OCD? And locking the door, checking to see if its locked, checking again, walking to the car, going back in and up a flight of stairs to check the lock again...

My autism caused so many mental disorders that its unbelievable. I have almost every disorder in the DSM IV and it annoys me to death. Let's see, I have been diagnosed with autism (obviously), schizoaffective disorder, social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, I've even been diagnosed with conversion disorder at one time (I had seizures 60 times a day and they turned out to be pseudoseizures I don't have that anymore oh thank God for that), I had panic attacks in my life, severe depression, dependent personality disorder and one psychiatrist even diagnosed me with bipolar disorder. Oh, I forgot one! Or two. I also have been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (multiple personality disorder) and when I was a kid ADHD (not true anymore). My most annoying ones are my DID (I have 10 known personalities) and the depression. My depression isn't too bad right now but I had at least 2 major depressive episodes this year alone. I don't agree with the diagnosis of schizoaffective because that would make me psychotic. I know I had pretty severe delusions in my life and when I was young (13) I heard voices all day long. I don't hear voices anymore and that is good news. I'm perfectly sane I tell you! People are probably wondering, how do I survive with all these problems? The answer is I do art work and build my model planes and it helps a lot. When I have nothing to do then I struggle more. I blame the autism for most, if not all, of these mental problems. I was diagnosed with autism at the young age of 5. But I had it way before that time. I had it since I was born at least according to my mom.

Bipolar - diagnosed and with clear genetic predisposition. The episodes have tapered off with age, though I'm still prone to short-term manic phases. Depression at this point is probably linked, but is more likely a consequence of dealing with AS and how it amputates any possibility of a *normal* social life.

Recurring issues with social phobia and generalized anxiety, though these are again really just symptomatic of AS since they're grounded in the trauma of bad social experience.

I'm not sure how much my sensitivity to co-morbid disorder is reinforced by AS vs. how much feeds into it --- it's a sort of chicken-and-egg question really.

Nick