Does any aspie have depression?

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As of yet I have not been diagnosed with Asperger's, but I have always struggled with depression. However anti-depressants made me want to kill myself within two weeks so I stopped taking them. I was diagnosed with dysthymia at some point but the doctor never talked to me about it. I just recently found it on my medical record so I have had to look into it on my own...

I have severe depression.

For me the problem has never been being underemotional, but overemotional.

I feel some emotions, but there's a whole slew that I've never experienced, even though I've been exposed to the events that should cause such.

RE: depression, I suppose I do experience it, the hopelessness feeling, the lack of interest, the lack of energy, etcetera, but I tend to feel that way most times, with several exacerbations of such throughout the year to a clinical amount. I'm used to it.

It's fairly minor compared to the symptoms of autism in my case, however.

Depression is actually pretty common for people on the spectrum. I have it and so does my son. (We are both Aspies.) Actually, when one is depressed, the Aspie behaviors are more pronounced.

Since when?

I fall in and out of depression. The worst was after my dad died. I think it was worse than depression in my teen years, which was longer but I didn't feel as much hurt, although I did hate my family and everyone around me.
I haven't been really depressed in a couple of months.
I once went through pms where I always thought my life wasn't worth living. I was like that for 4 or 5 months, and during that time I also had to put up with post-breakup depression.

I have had a severe depression. It was in connection with that, I got my Asperger's diagnosis.

i never was depressed and i have a poverty of emotions.

i have quite severe autism, but i have an ability to describe (not "express", but "describe").

i liken my perception of my autism to swimming up from the depths of autism, and i see swimmers above me who are closer to to breaking through the surface. some are already happily floating there.

i am far down from the surface, and i have only 4 emotions. i feel them strongly but they are separate from each other, and i feel no connection between them.
they are "happy" "sad" "angry" and "scared".

so my experience of "sadness" is what i determine to roughly correspond to the meaning of "depression".

i read about depression.
depression is a feeling of hopelessness and despair. it is a feeling that any energy spent is futile. depression leads to idle stagnation that perpetuates further depression.

i do not suffer depression.
the only times i feel "sad", is when i feel homesick for something i knew and loved that is now gone. it is more like "sorrow in my heart" than the complicated ideas, and seriously arresting developments of psychotic depression.

I do suffer from depression however its more mild then sereve.

I have depression. I know some aspies have problems with emotions, but I myself am a deeply emotional person. I think I am highly sensitive and feel more than what normal people do when it comes to being hurt.

My earliest (childhood) dx was chronic depression and anti-social behavior. Medication does not affect it. It's only recently that I realized my depression was from not being able to understand things going on in my life - it's a symptom of my behavior, not a cause of it. Not being able to effectively share my feelings with others only sends me on a downward spiral into a worse depression, along with anxiety and the above-mentioned 'anti-social behavior.'

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I was diagnosed with Major Depression in 1995 but have probably had it since my late teens around 1975. It is always there but these days I rarely hit the really low points that I did when I was trying to fit in with everyone else. For the past eight years I've been somewhat of a hermit but am unsure whether to accept that this should be the way to live the rest of my life.

i get depressed but its like mini depression where i'll have a day or 2 really down then i'll manage to bring myself back up again

I've had depression on and off since I was about 15. I've come to the conclusion that what psychologists term 'depression' is actually a whole class of disorders lumped into one. I know I don't always experience depression as simple sadness or despondency.

I don't know if I even consider depression to be an emotion per say. Sometimes it's more a feeling of mental exhaustion, like there's an overbearing weight on me. Other times it's a very drab and austere state of mind. I would use "mental nausea" as a close metaphor because when I'm in that state thinking about doing anything requiring mental energy causes simultaneous exhaustion and revulsion. I can't really pin these mental states into the category of emotions because they seem distinct from my normal emotions.