Why doe so many aspies wind up in mental wards?

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At the place where I went, they wouldn't let us take food back to our rooms, so I just never ate.

That would have gone well if I'd have been involuntary and stayed a few weeks.

Someone who would make such a poor diagnosis would probably be the type that just goes off a checklist and generalizes what they see an AS person do and may think they are crazy.

Diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia that could be confused with AS symptoms:

disorganized speech
flat or inappropriate affect
peculiarities of voluntary movement as evidenced by posturing, stereotyped movements,
extreme negativism, mustism
Social/occupational dysfunction
hallucinations (could be confused with being so dreamy if the person mentions it).

Answer: The BS expectations and demands of the myriad Neurotypical societies.

I was in about 4 mental wards..I had no idea that it was common in aspies.

Most of mine pertained to suicidal attempts and messes I'd get in while intoxicated. I remember getting intoxicated so bad that I wouldn't remember the stuff that happened before I was put into a psych ward. My drinking was out of control in such a short period of time. I was only 21 when all of this happened and didn't start drinking till I was 18 so it didn't take long.

After being in and out of rehabs, I've been much more stable mentally as well as clean and sober. I try to make it an importance that I see my doctor as much as possible...which I really don't like to do. So I'm wondering if maybe my using had a lot to do with that. Then again, I've seen so many people drink and use who don't normally end up in psych wards or do as much crazy things as I did. Maybe aspergers and drinking just don't go along together with me.

I cite my incarceration in a mental ward, relatively often on WP. For me, it was very similar to many people posting about it - An un-diagnosed aspie's reactions to meltdown is seen by psychiatrists as something different. He pinned a label of paranoid schizophrenia on me. I got out when my insurance stopped paying for it. After evaluating my responses to a long questionaire that I was given, the insurance company probably realized that the psychiatrist was full of s**t.


Here's something to ponder:
• There aren't any pharamceuticals for treating AS.
• Psychiatrists are not required to have studied any psychology.
• Most psychiatrists refuse to recognise AS.

I was in one twice when I was 20.

My first time was for a week, and my second time was for 3 days.

They were both because I was very emotionally unstable at the time (9 years ago), and it was because I was very upset about my first girlfriend cheating on me the year before.

Wow. That explains SO much.

The last psychiatrist I saw (this was because my neurologist wasn't comfortable with writing a prescription for one of my medications since it can cause psychological side effects) kept wanting to put me on anti-depressants after I told her I'm AS. I kept saying... I'm not depressed. She kept saying I'm not AS.

Finally I told her "People like me, and I think you know damned well what I mean by this, rely a lot on logic and proof. PROVE to me that I'm depressed and I'll take whatever you give me."

Then I fired her ass.

Apparently, there's no actual way to prove (and I mean scientifically prove) depression. You just have to "guess".

For me I was almost put away to the funny farm. It was a over zealous school phycologiest after a meltdown. My parents saw what was happening and took me out of school.

I would think it would be stress. I can see it in my own life.