And it's all due to your aspergers

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heres how it happened:

yesterday when I awoke I felt great, better then great, I was so creative, I had fantastic rancing thoughts and ideas, then I started to become agitated and felt fearful at home and left my house, on my walk i felt like I was being followed, like I was being watched. I wandered around for about 2 hours before returning ,I was scaring my family with my erratic behavior, but I evenutally calmed down, the last time this happened a couple of weeks ago I ended up in A&E where I was told...well, we'll get to it

Now today I had a severe episode, I wont venture a guess as to what it was right now, I was agitated, elated, distressed, paranoid, thinking I was being watched, that my house wasn't safe, I got an emergency apointment with a professional and explained how thoughts of people reading my mind cross my mind, thoughts of suicide were about and how my thoughts were raacing and I couldn't stay still nor was I speaking entirely with coherence.

Well what did he say? what do they always say?

"This is actually aspergers syndrome yadda yadda it's all coming from that and we need to focus on your aspergers"

I just..fear that I'm never going to get the treatment I need when all these people have convinced themselves so wholly that the only condition I have is aspergers and that's it, I haven't even been diagnosed with major depression and everyone in my family can see that is at least a no brainer.

As for me being bipolar based on these short but intense episodes? Well I guess I've sort of given up hope in trying to find treatment for my actual problems. These people see "aspergers" on my file and assume I need help with socialising and having conversations - laughably trivial!...all the while I'm contemplating when my next episode will come

Can anyone indentify?

I've not been diagnosed with aspergers, but for a brief time one doctor decided I had Borderline Personality Disorder, which is a horrible diagnosis to receive, especially when you don't really have it, it's so misunderstood. I do not have Borderline, the next doctor who saw me decided that was totally wrong. I do have a diagnosis of Bipolar disorder, and while the first doctor was operating under the idea that I had Borderline he completely dismissed a manic episode as me trying to manipulate him.

I was in his office saying "I need help, I'm not sleeping and I'm not eating and I can't slow down." and he just sat there saying "Oh, well it's not that bad, is it?"

So I kind of know what it's like to have one diagnosis that makes the doctor stop listening to you, though thankfully that diagnosis is not on my record and many professionals since then have said I don't have it.

I feel like I'm kind of in the opposite of you - I have bipolar and wonder if that will get in the way of me getting an aspergers diagnosis.

I have had an impossible time getting a bipolar (II in my case) diagnosis as well although I'm prescribed drugs as if I have it.

Clearly something is interfering with your life and it's not just Asperger's. People with Asperger's can be free of mental illness and what you have just described is mental illness. Have you sought second or third or fourth opinions?

I was discharged from CBT as it was supposedly unethical as it was not working, probably due to Aspergers. I then couldn't get a diagnosis for most of a year and had no treatment for my depression or social anxiety.
I must admit I think I had some reasonable grounds to be upset with the therapist for constantly being off sick and not having a replacement and issues with the reception staff after years of suffering from depression and being passed round from person to person. Apparently my upset was just evidence for an Aspergers diagnosis, rather than being valid and her being at all wrong!

I admit my depression is probably due to Aspergers and now seeing a psychologist specialising in it, but that doesn't mean I don't need depression treatment if I am depressed. They said at the Aspergers place I just needed adjustments if I had therapy, not that I shouldn't have it. I'm also doing surprisingly well on new medication for depression.

Nothing is caused by "Asperger's Syndrome". "Asperger's Syndrome" is an abstraction that describes a collection of observed symptoms that are the result of some sort of process that is taking place in the Universe.

Instead of thinking of the "Phenomena" to figure out what caused what think of the "Noumena", the substance.

We have a natural ability to do this and yet so many of us get confused by NT reifications of things and take them as real.