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Last edited by qsPyro on 11 Aug 2012, 9:09 am, edited 2 times in total.

There can be a lot of mental illnesses that can go along with autism. It's good you can acknowledge to yourself that you are having problems, though simply calling yourself crazy doesn't help. I urge you to seek a psychiatrist to diagnose and treat whatever the problem is. It might end up not requiring medication.

I wouldn't be so hasty to call you sick or crazy. They're not helpful terms. Also, I wouldn't be so quick to compare myself to anyone's illness. "Sick and crazy" are relative terms. Really, when I hear those two words together like that I'm thinking about serial killers and hate machines like that ex-Army racist in Wisconsin.

That said, some people on the spectrum do have mental health issues like paranoia, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and so on. Some have it to a greater degree than others. Some do act out on it and end up in psych hospitals or graves. I think most do realize they have issues and get the necessary treatment like therapy and medication.

Those are comorbid coexisting problems and somehow linked to autism.
Not all autistic people have those problems, but you'll nearly find any autistic person here with no comorbidities at all.

Without making any attempt to compare severity I promise you are not the only one around here with this stuff going on. There is certainly a causal relationship between autism and some of these things but as somebody else said some people manage a lot better with it than others. It's not one of the diagnostic criteria for autism - it's perfectly possible to be diagnosed with autism without having these kind of emotional disturbances. Nevertheless a LOT of people with autism have co-morbid anxiety and depression - I think I read some crazy statistic like 2/3 of autistic people have another mental health problem at some point in their lives. If that is accurate it's roughly double the prevalence in the average population.

Personally the anxiety, panic, phobias etc are one of the main reasons I can't keep a job and I frequently think I am "crazy". It is horrible :/

I had all those things in my late teen years. I think it was because of my autism. I had LOTs of problems as a kid & teen as a result of that & I didn't know much at all about autism/AS then which caused me to feel like something was VERY WRONG with me. The only people who I related to online were people who were had major mental illnesses like bipolar &/or schizophrenia & lots had been committed & been arrested as a result of their issues. Only being able to relate to "crazy" people & having anxiety issues that were a result of all the problems I faced caused me to worry that I was crazy too. I had a mental breakdown when I was 20 & developed a bad psychotic depression that was brought on by my anxiety over my 1st relationship ending; she was the 1st person I ever really connected with & she had drug problems that caused me to have panic attacks worrying. Anyways I think I might can relate to where your coming from OP. It's great that your here; trying to learn about things & being more self aware helped me overcome my psychotic depression & realize I wasn't the disturbed psycho I thought I was & sort of tried to be in my late teens era. I don't have a lot of faith in mental health professionals because I had bad experiences but I will still suggest seeing one. If you think you could have autism/Aspergers; try to find one who has a lot of expedience dealing with adults who have it. Most of the so-called "professionals" I saw weren't very knowledgeable with it & they thought I had 10+ other things instead of AS or anything else on the autism spectrum which only contributed to me believing that i was crazy & lead to lots of meds that caused problems instead of helping me.