Genrelized Anxiety Disorder?

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Is GAD common in people with Aspergers? I think I may have it. I have had give a lot of the symptoms; fatigue, tingling (in fingers, head and arms) and headaches. I worry about things a lot of the time, and suffer from depression a lot, maybe it's symptoms from depression.

Any advice how to deal with the symptoms?

Before, during, and after being diagnosed with Asperger's I had profound anxiety nearly all the time and any medication I was put on only seemed to make it worse. I would have difficulty breathing, disorientation, pains in my chest, chronic worrying and dread, numbness, tingling, headaches, and I had a terrible time with sleep. I had sleep apnea and sometimes would wake up feeling like I was having a heart attack. My immunity to infections also took a hard hit. But I'm doing much better now, possibly because I have a place of my own and have more control and less stress in my everyday life. I mean I used to live in a home for people with severe mental illness, almost anywhere else (except the hospital or prison) would be ten times more comfortable to live. I used to do a lot of things to control the anxiety like going for walks (I did that a lot!), listening to music, watching funny shows on TV, reading and cuddling with my stuffed animals. But then suddenly it seemed none of those things helped any more and I not only became a lot more anxious but angry and nasty, too...

I think keeping life as simple as possible helps.

Have you been to the doctors about it? I recently paid my GP a visit about severe anxiety and she prescribed me some beta blockers to deal with the physical symptoms. They seem to work quite well for me

I think us Aspies are more prone to GAD along with anxiety disorders in general due to the problems we faced because of our issues. I have GAD & the med Buspar is helping me alot. It's the only med in the US that's specially approved for Generalized Anxiety instead of being used for various other things as well. It helps with the physical symptoms of anxiety & I find it helps my other anxiety issues. Other things that have helped my anxiety is analyzing what it's related to & making changes to try to improve things I can.

So far I remember, Temple Grandin writes a lot about the connections of anxiety and autism. In her opinion it's because the autistic brain has many similarities with the animal brain because we also have a high detail orientation and tend to be fearfull and so on.

So autistic people don't necesserily have GAD, but a high anxiety level is "normal".