Drugs That Help Aspergers

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for hypertension i was on beta blockers for a long time, they eliminated my intentional tremor and reduced my free-floating anxiety to a level where i could throttle it in the bathtub, as they say.

I took metoprolol, a beta blocker, for anxiety and it worked great. The weird thing is when you take it for an anxiety provoking situation once or twice after that you don't feel anxiety in that situation.

I think autistic anxiety in social situations and crowds is a reasonable and intelligent reaction to our sensitivities and the fact that we easily and often find ourselves unexpectedly in difficult situations. I have found Doctor Burns techniques (book Feeling Great) of appreciating our difficult emotions (it's smart to be nervous when you're doing something you're unskillful at) along with acceptance (it's unreasonable to try to be great at everything, etc etc) to be great help.

His book "Feeling Good Together" has excellent techniques to improve conversational skill and understand things we're missing in our speech patterns.

I believe drugs should generally not be used for aspergers, anxiety, or depression which are 99% of the time reasonable reactions to situations that can be massively improved with modern techniques. Check out the Feeling Great podcast.

I'm not anti drug, schizophrenia definitely, maybe paranoia need drug treatment. I'm inclined to believe ADHD as well but the drugs are not very good IMHO (serious side effect issues, haven't done research lately though).

When I smoked pot many years ago I didn't have social anxiety but I was high and out of it.

The social anxiety I have now seems completely reasonable since I'm so unskillful socially and don't consider it of concern and it's almost helpful since it reminds me to pay attention to social issues.

Best of luck.

Adderall XR is the only drug to ever help my autism. It caused a 180° turn in my social and executive functioning deficits but the side effects of the drug were intolerable so I had to stop it. It destroyed my appetite, made almost everything taste like cardboard, made it difficult to sleep, and caused my mood to go on a rollercoaster every day. Adderall made it so much easier to talk and get things done.

Diazepam and weed. *shrug*

Thank y'all for the helpful comments

While there is no 'cure' for Autism, I'm finding that hydroxyzine is helping me take the edge off of the otherwise intolerable anxiety and social phobia that I have felt.

hydroxyzine and doxylamine are both antihistamines, the latter is my go-to for critical insomnia. the latter comes with grogginess unless one takes a half-dose. have not noticed any help with my AS.

I think everybody's physiological makeup is different. how something affects someone isn't the same for the next person, i found that taking something and having quiet time to map how the sensations feel and trying to recall that without substance is important but takes many goes and many scenarios to work. stay away from alcohol. unless you're me.

LOTS of Hard liquor makes me feel normal, more or less. I don't get drunk, I become...calm?

But the side and after effects of consuming that poison made me quit

I had a bad experience with Trazodone. A tiny dose made me into a zombie