IsabellaLinton wrote:
Larksparrow wrote:
DanielW wrote:
Larksparrow wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Also ... regarding the title of this thread, Aspergers is no longer a diagnosis.
I'm just trying to figure out if there is a way to help my sister and stop her current descent into alienating the entire family.
That is really a different question altogether. A diagnosis isn't going to help your sister. Treating the symptoms/issues she is having right now might. Are there comorbid issues that need addressing?
My thought is that if she had a diagnosis and accepted it, she would use her tenacity to get treatment for her symptoms. Once she puts her mind to something, she is unstoppable. Accepting a diagnosis is the sticking point. She has a lot of emotional energy tied up in how horrible every one is, and that she’s surrounded by stupid people. The idea that she is experiencing cognitive distortions would be hard for her to take. She does not like being wrong.
Isn't that her problem, and not yours?
A diagnosis will not "cure" her or correct cognitive distortion. In fact, it may help her to feel more self-assured or confident about the personality she already has.
All you can do is educate yourself.
It is her problem, and I can’t change her. Still, I love her and her continued self-driven social alienation pains me, and causes her pain. I may be grasping at straws, but there is no harm in checking all avenues I can think of. I would hope that someone would do that for me. And she is aware of some of her cognitive distortions, particularly associated with her depression, so she is familiar with the concept. If she can accept and cope with a diagnosis of depression, I will give her the benefit of the doubt in applying her incredibly logical mind to examining her thoughts in light of a diagnosis of ASD. And maybe being more self-assured about her personality would be a good thing.
22 Feb 2019, 4:09 pm
