Any medication or techniques to control/avoid meltdowns?

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There are stressful situations that you know will come..and you kind of expect to create high stress...possibly leading to all kinds of meltdown-like problems.

Is there any technique or medication that could help prevent or control this?

What do you do to avoid meltdowns, aside from plain avoidance of the stressor?

Avoid, or sedate.

The former is easy enough to understand, the latter involves something like Diazepam; sedatives alleviate anxiety from the situation to some extent, and they dampen the senses.

What is the situation and what is, or might be, causing the stress?

What I like to do, personally, is wrap myself up in a thick blanket and sit in my closet in the dark. (Or I sit in front of my fan, also in a blanket) I just try to cut off all external stimuli and disconnect.

I think it helps to train for stressful events. . .if any of you have been athletes you will know what I am talking about.

Just like say a distance runner adapts to stress and adverse conditions by training for them. . .why can't it work for other things??? I think it's possible. . .but you have to work on it consistantly everyday. Just just an athlete would. You aren't going to become a faster runner if you don't train right? It is just hard to do it for other things because it isn't a sport.

I think it helps to keep a training log. You could start with little things that you know you will have to deal with, things that you can handle but are a little hard. You have to get better at the little things before you can get better at the big things.

That is one option and it is not invasive.

controlled cannabis usage works for me

for me it is to wrap myself up in my blanket in my bed and let myself seem to calm down for the time being

I've had remarkable luck controlling panic attacks and thwarting stressful situations with pericyazine, an antipsychotic that is milder than benzodiazapenes but also non-addictive.

Also, if you can get it, tea made from the mid-Pacific herb Kava Kava is very relaxing. It's even known as natural valium, and is non-addictive too.

I tried Ritalin (officially prescribed). buth that made me very unstable.

I tried dextroamphetamine (officially prescribed), but that may me rather numb.

I tried various illegal substances including LSD, MDMA, levoamphetamine, methylone and 2-FMA (self-medicated). Those did benefit me a lot, but the stimulants to tend to be addictive and result in dependence.

Currently, I try to stay free from any medication most of the time, although I do self-medicate occasionally.

My prefered combo for alleviating the more negative Autism symtoms is a mixture of levoamphetamine, methylone and 2-FMA.