Harder to control negative emotions

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I find that its harder for me then NTs to control showing negative emotions. If Im stressed, frustrated, depressed, dislike someone. It all shows. I know it happens to all of us. Some people are stressed out or depressed like crazy more then I am. I find NTs are able to control the presence of this much more. For me much of the stress is social anxiety related. idk if this is strong enough case for medication. By being able to get meds to help me cover up my emotions, chances that I will mess up socially is less therefore, there will be less of reason to be socially anxious. I hate to have people thinking Im a psycho.

Yes. I relate 100%. I am on medication but I still can't hide stress/depression too well.

I was punching myself in the face this morning because I knew I had a stressful day ahead. Thankfully, no-one saw me.

I hate people thinking I'm deranged because I'm actually a calm, rational person...except when I'm not.

I can definitely relate. Controlling my anxiety in social situations is my biggest problem. If I find myself in an uncomfortable social situation, which happens like 9/10 times, then I usually turn into a nervous wreck. I smile to the point that the muscles around my mouth tremble. I clench my hands. My posture becomes very unbalanced and awkward. It's so frustrating! I always try to tell myself to relax and go with the flow. Needless to say, it never works, and I always end up leaving the situation feeling like a pissed-off fool.

Yes, I think its very hard for those of us with anxiety/depression to control our negative emotions. When I get into a negative emotion, it definitely shows and its hard to just let it go.

I can relate to it. I find it very hard to not show emotions, and as you wrote, the negative ones are more difficult to hide, since I'm not always aware of showing. I'm not particularly prone to depression, I only feel a more or less constant anxiety. The funny thing is that even when I try to suppress my feelings about something bad that just happened to me my friend would read it easily and ask what the problem was, and I'd have to talk about it...

Since I dropped some of my efforts to show a good face whenever I'm in the company of others after discovering AS, my co-workers kept me asking questions like what's happened to you, do you feel ok, etc. Nothing has happened, I'm only this way.