Anxiety?

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Is moderate to severe anxiety common with autism? Pippin isn't acting right and I am panicking and can't relax. I have this happen a lot with him and Nim and whe people are late is this common?

I am going insane. I need coping skills.

I cannot tell you how much an issue anxiety is in my life. I really don't know what to do either. There are times when it's not really that bad, but there are times when it's terrible. I'm afraid of medication, especially SSRIs and SNRIs. I wish I knew what to do.

YES! very common.................I have the same issue....................

I hate it ii amm so worried I can't relax does anyone else's stomach hurt when oyou anxious or nervous?

I have no idea how bad my anxiety is but it has caused impairments in my life and road blocks. I just learned to avoid situations and learned to stay calm somehow like when I get stuck in traffic or when I can't find something like my keys so I learned to look and make sure I have my keys first before I start to panic so I don't have an anxiety attack over nothing. I have also learned to worry about things later when the time comes such as the time I locked my keys in the apartment on accident and I decided to worry about it when I get back. I ended up having a meltdown after my appointment because it was time to worry. Now to try and find out a way to control my anxiety at other times.

Can ask what ages everyone was when they noticed their severe Anxiety? Mine started at 25 almost on the dot as did my brothers. I am wondering if our brains are still forming until about that age.

I also have a lot of anxiety issues. Sometimes it can come on for no apparent reason. I have noticed though that changes to my routine can cause it. If I can, I will try to find a very quiet part of the house and darken the room. I will work on something relaxing like a computer solitaire game or my writing. I will sometimes get sleepy and then take a nap. Sometimes I can sleep the anxiety off, and other times I cannot. But at least the rest helps.

Mine was pretty bad in my teens that was why my parents wouldn't let me work. They knew I wouldn't be able to handle school and work at the same time. But their cover up was "You're a kid and can only be a kid once so enjoy your time as a kid because once you're an adult, you're an adult forever." They also said I shouldn't even be trying to get a job and just enjoy being a kid and the other kids who have jobs are in such a rush to grow up and before they know it, they will be adults and be adults forever.

But I think my anxiety has gotten better.

I remember mine coming for no reason too and I couldn't understand why I get them for no reason. When I was with my ex I figured out why I may have been getting anxiety for no reason. I needed structure and didn't know when we were leaving so I'd get anxious and then have a meltdown because of my anxiety. What happened was we go to his grand parents house so he can cash his check and he needed his grandfather to do it because he didn't have a bank account. But his grandfather would procrastinate and it drove me crazy and no matter how patient I would try to be, I would end up getting anxiety and then melting down. My ex hated that about me and acted like I did it on purpose and would yell at me about it (I don't mean he raised his voice). And procrastination will drive me into a meltdown.

I have severe anxiety almost constantly and have done for as long as I can rememer. I had my first panic attack aged four, obviously didn't know what the hell it was, had another one at eight, one more at twelve and then they started really badly when I was twenty. In between times I've been a constant worrier, startling easily and now just feel generally sick with anxiety (especially first thing in the morning). It's never got better or lessened and believe me I've tried everything. The only thing that works for me is diazepam and I have to fight every inch of the way to get each prescription. So all the doctors are doing really is adding more anxiety, well done them.

Tiffinity.

This relaxation crap doesn't work on me it just makes it worse because I've got no patience.

I have panic attacks maybe...three or four times a week. Before I was put on Prozac (diagnosed with depression...was not depressed) I had them maybe twice a month. On the Prozac (which the shrink said would help my panic as well as the depression that I did not have) I had maybe five or six a day. I actually failed the 11th grade because it got so bad that I just stopped leaving the house all together for a few months. No one noticed that I was staying home until the school finally called. I'm...very quiet.

I have had steady issues with severe anxiety since around the 4th or 5th grade. I don't really remember what triggered it exactly. But that was they year that I really began to feel "different" in comparison to my peers. And I'd been bullied since Kindergarten. I suppose "something had to give". Prior to that, I was just very anxious around other children.

Yes, my stomach tends to hurt a lot when I am anxious. Or I feel six. I used to throw up every morning before school in 5th grade and I threw up before P.E. most days during 6th grade. Now, I mostly dry heave a lot so...that's an improvement I suppose.

I'm reluctantly trying a new anxiety med (after bad experiences with Prozac and Zoloft) and while it DOES relieve the anxiety, I am not so sure about these side effects. I have awful stomach aches the first couple of hours after taking it, then the stomach aches fade and I become shakey, and after that the world...slows down. It is difficult to explain. It is like I am moving really quickly and the rest of the world slows down to a crawl. I can't understand anything that is being said because the words are stretching out like taffy.

I've been told I'm a anxious person or told to chill out. Anxiety really sucks

My dad has always told me to relax. My husband has told me to "calm down" which doesn't work. People act like as if I can calm down without even realizing I will calm down once it happens. And my parents used to get mad about my anxiety as if I was doing it on purpose. They knew I had an anxiety disorder but in 2001, they all of a sudden started to get mad at me about it. They also would let my brothers have lot of friends over or have parties and then get mad at me for my anxiety.

Yeah mine seems tied to unpredictability. If I can predict the situation, within reason, I'm good. But throw me into a situation and just let me go without any plan or strategy and here comes the PANIC. Also I don't like the feeling of not being able to leave if I have to. I think that is P.T.S.D. from a horrible flood my family went through.

I get anxiety about many things, mostly new situations, worries about my health, worries about my pets' health, worries about future unknowns, worries about possible mishaps. It's really frustrating, although I have finally (in the past few years) been able to fully see them as cognitive distortions and dismiss them.

I still get panic attacks, which are much harder to cope with, but much less frequent than they used to be. I can stop some of them but not all of them - it's hard to cope with a panic attack and sensory overload at the same time, and sensory overload is sometimes what causes my panic attacks in the first place.