Depression more common in Aspergers, not Autism itself???

Post Reply New Topic

i would imagine itd be dependant on how high functioning you are as to the level of depression you are suceptable to.
im depressed cos i know what im missing. if you are too long functioning you wouldnt know what you are missing in life and how it is that everyone else behaves. they cant know better

I had been diagnosed as "severely depressed" about eight years ago. Since then I have eaten many drug as a possible cure.(plus a few non-prescibed) Zoloft is presently keeping me from self-deconsruction.

I'm depressed to an extent. There's not a second of a day I don't think of what happen with the suspension and I stick to the aspect that my behavior upsets everyone and it's time to learn to change it. (Sadly that's as far as I've gotten) I'm still trying to figure life out.

I was always tested for depression ever since the 4th grade because like you said I appeared to be in my own little world but once I saw a counselor I would open up and talk their ear off so they had a hard time saying I was depressed because frankly is wasn't, this was all before my Asperger's diagnosis. I currently take an anti-depressant with my concerta to supplement it in reducing anxiety and stress and I do get depressed but it usually coincides with my concerta wearing off.

Have I gotten an official diagnosis of Depression?
This I don't know.

Have I been depressed and might be depressed now?
I know I had bouts of depression, not sure of how depressed I am at the moment.

I am not sure why I had it, what it's connected to neurochemically. At one point I took an SSRI. I had some good results, some not so good. It turned me into the kind of person I hadn't been before. It made me manic.

I’ve had depression since the age of 15. I think my depression comes because I’m a “quiet” “thinking” type person. Most people seem to live in the moment more and are thus happier. I’m always questioning things and often ask “what’s the point”.

I don’t know that my depression has much to due with my struggles due to my condition. After all I’m perfectly happy being a loner at many times in my life. Even being bullied didn’t make me depressed before the age of 15. Sure, I got down about sh*t sometimes, but I always had things in my mind to look forward to. As I got older it got harder to look forward to things and I started to question the point in even trying. Depression makes life feel extremely flat and pointless. It isn’t just being sad due to struggles. That kind of feeling is much easier to deal with than this emotional flatness that plagues me constantly.

I've had depression most of my life, I sort of became aware of it when I was in kindergarten, when I was 4 or 5.

I've had depressive periods ever since my early teenage years, usually I do really well once on antidepressants but I don't want to take them constantly so I always have to be "concious" of my symptomps.

what I noticed was that in my case depression was caused by my weird sleep patterns i.e. whenever I would start to get the insomnia phase followed by hypersomnia phase my whole sleeping pattern would get fcuked up and I would end up with major depression.

my doc says that it's the other way round- it's depression that causes my insomnia/hypersomnia but I'm pretty sure he's wrong. I've never felt sad or suiciadal, most of the time I don't really care that much.

I'm mildly AS without other diagnosis than a "I'm pretty sure you have it" from my psychiatrist so I'm not sure if it's an aspie thing.

I agree with lionness. If you are more aware of your differences, both in comparison to others and in comparison to your own high functioning in certain areas of your life, you will be subject to depression, or at least frustration.

This is a difficult thing to say, as I,myself have dealt with Depression for 21yrs now and I was classified as having Aspergers along with other learning disorders acourse but, personally, I feel that anyone within the spectrum might be more at risk for the potential development of Depression so, I leave this topic open for debate but, I've made my entry into this realm though..

I think I was diagnosed with depression along with AS when I was in 6th grade. I was depressed then. I hated being different, I wanted to be normal, I wanted to be treated the same as everyone else, not get bullied and I also wanted friends.

I do agree the reason why people with AS are depressed is because how they are treated in society. I was depressed because I was different and I wanted to end my life so bad because I couldn't stand being bullied anymore and being treated differently.

I was diagnosed with depression/PTSD before getting the Asperger's diagnosis. I had PTSD from the years of bullying I went through in elementary school. I was depressed because I knew I was different, but didn't quite know why. Now that I have my Asperger's diagnosis, I no longer have symptoms of depression.

I was diagnosed with a severe depression 1½ year ago. A big part of it was perseverating a lot on different thoughts I had. I was at a psychiatric hospital and was treated there.

Afterwards they had some suspicions about some "difficulties" of different kinds, pervasive development disorder etc., and it's all a long story, but I ended up getting an AS diagnosis. I probably hadn't got it if I hadn't been in the system with the depression at first; I would never have guessed that I had something permanent that could be diagnosed (although I've always been "different", but most in my childhood; now I see that I still am, but it doesn't matter.)