Co-morbid conditions?

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I've seen a list of AS co-morbid conditions, and I have been diagnosed with every single one of them at some point, but was only recently diagnosed with AS. I would like to know, how many of these co-morbid conditions have you suffered from, if any? And what would it mean if I actually suffer from most, if not all of them?

I don't know if chronic PTSD is considered a co-morbid condition, but I'd like to know more about it. I haven't been able to find concise information about it. My whole life has been a trauma, and I'm trying to figure out if I have it as well.

Thanks in advance.

I have PTSD, depression, and anxiety. I'm on medication and it works well. I have very few PTSD symptoms, if any, these days.

At the moment, the only real consequence of having these conditions is that I need to find a therapist who knows about AS, and that is difficult. Up to now, I've gone to therapists who know nothing, and their paradigm of "Just work through your issues and everything will be fine" doesn't work for someone with AS. I'm trying to find a therapist who understands my cognitive profile and can give me appropriate feedback.

Have others had any luck with this?

I have been diagnosed with depression and OCD, and am convinced that strange distorted-perceptive episodes I've had since childhood are mild epileptic seizures.

Diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and social phobia

dpression/anxity, congnative disorder. on and off ocd i think. addiction disorder

I have anxiety and personality disorder

All conditions that are found in a person next to another of their disorders are co-morbid disorders.

They can be independent from each other or a consequence of another disorder that was there first.

That's the official definition.

I have relative blindness.... as in I can never find something unless it is handed to me, because I look too hard to find it and overlook where it should be. I lost my toaster because someone moved it to the other end of the counter, spent 20 minutes looking for it in all the wrong places, go to gat a spoon for something else, and notice someone put the toaster on the counter above the cutlery drawer.

I have been diagnosed with epilepsy in 1987 but have had epilepsy since may 1974. I have had some other trauma as that was due to the violent and oppressive upbringing. I have seen therapists but they knew nothing about Asperger syndrome or even have an interest in it. These therapists one was a misandrist woman who was terrible to everyone who was male and not neurotypical which has made me terribly impatient with people and I now do not like excuses for this even if it was in 1987 when I never heard of Asperger syndrome. I should have been told that I had Asperger syndrome in the early 1970's rather than being treated like I had AIDS or cancer because my parents were told by some cowboy doctor that I had brain damage rather than the truth which was I never had brain damage, I had Asperger syndrome. It's not rocket science! I went into special schools alongside Down syndrome children and others like them. This was not an education I see now that being born in 1966 was a complete waste of time. by 1974 I had epileptic seizures for the first time which would be diagnosed 13 years later and confirmed by EEG. WHen I went into Mainstream education at Whitley Park 1977-78 and at Ashmead 1978-84 I was put into a lesser ability class (and a year behind) for some reason which I now see as institutionalised Aspiphobia. All this destroyed my self esteem which 24 years later and after a stint on TC (therapeutic community) whith neurotypicals and their aspiphobia I realised that therapists and most psychologists are 4th rate and like something from Anglo-Norman times. I see that any depression that I have had was not due to the Asperger syndrome it is due to the prejudice that I have had to endure for now 42 years and no apology or reparations for. A neurotypical would my. I do take epilepsy tablets carbamazepine (controlled release) 400mg daily. for mainly complex partial seizures.

I pretty much have everything in the DSM IV (the book that psychologists/psychiatrists use to diagnose people). Let's see, I've been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, of course autism (or else I wouldn't be here, duh!), depression, DID, dependent personality disorder, and finally panic attacks. As you can tell, I'm just plain nuts!