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stress

  1. No Strings Attached

    Need to decompress

    So basically, a few days ago, a friend of mine did something which really messed me up, and he involved my other friends, and so on and so forth. The point being that after the entire thing passed, I still think about it, even though everyone else had moved on. All this thinking has led to an...
  2. Highway Cowboy

    Let's Talk about Stimming

    Hello guys, for those of you who don't know I'm a 46 year old Aspies HGV Driver. Only recently diagnosed.. For years I've done this thing where when driving on the motorway I have to bang my teeth together when passing a lamp post, road signs or between marker posts. I try and do it when half...
  3. Daydreamer

    Code words

    I don't know why, but lately I've been thinking about something that happened three or so months ago. My tutors arranged this University trip which was at this escape the room challenge. Unfortunately, there was a rather overwhelming buffet section of the trip and I lost my cool a bit. I began...
    • Daydreamer
    • Thread
    • code words impulse over stimulation overwhelmed stress
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Off Topic
  4. catdog55616

    s c h o o l

    For some odd reason, I have a strange sense of object permanence. In this case, if I can't immediately see a deadline (2-3 days depending on what it is), it just doesn't exist for me. Because of this, I'll have random moments where I remember that school is starting next week for me. This makes...
    • catdog55616
    • Blog entry
    • 1 min read
    • school social difficulties stress
    • Category: General
  5. Smiley

    Non-verbal communication

    My three year old son doesn't talk. He has resisted all our attempts to teach him to sign. I made a few picture cards for him, and he took to them really quickly, used them for three days, then stopped. If he wants something, he indicates by taking someone (usually me) by the hand and leading...
  6. Bolletje

    Hitting a wall

    It’s been a while since my last update. I’ve been working really hard (surprise!). Too hard, really. Because of the flu season, a few of my coworkers were sick. Since we’re understaffed already, I ended up covering for two coworkers. Which means thrice the normal amount of patients (and...
    • Bolletje
    • Blog entry
    • 3 min read
    • anxiety stress work
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: General
  7. Major Tom

    A technique that could help anyone.

    There has been a few things or people that have had a big impact in my life. Some of them were here, and hopefully you've had the chance to see and share in the great advice, wisdom, and caring moments that can happen on AC. I wanted to mention another person who has helped me along the way. I...
    • Major Tom
    • Thread
    • anxiety anyone autism depression panic sickness stress
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Off Topic
  8. WereBear

    The Boss who makes me sick

    This member of management is an utter incompetent. Which was merely annoying until they were moved into my line of command. Now their confusing instructions are directly stressful. Which was bad enough, but then they started trying to undermine my ability to do my work. Now I am getting hives...
  9. Jorg

    Thinking in start a GoFundMe campaign for university costs

    I've read for several months that people have started to use crowfunding sites such as GoFundMe, indiegogo, kickstarter, etc, to raise money for college/university/education costs. I'm starting to think in create a campaign for me, but idk, it is not something usual or normal I believe...
  10. A

    Trying to Choose Sanity (Over Compulsion...?) PART 1

    My new job is full-time. I have read that many Aspies find they cannot work full-time. Though my job is ideal considering potential "burnout/get-fired danger zone areas" that I have/might face at other jobs, it is still full-time. The trouble with full-time is simply the length of it. That...
    • Ambi
    • Blog entry
    • 6 min read
    • full time work healthy activities regulation vs. disregulation special interests stress work life balance
    • Category: General
  11. WereBear

    Cortisol Resistance Crisis

    I did it this time. The past few months have been work mayhem, moving mayhem, husband illness mayhem, and then visiting relatives mayhem. I think it was too much mayhem. I broke out with eczema/psoriasis spots on lip, elbows, shins, and one foot. The only treatment it responded to was cortisol...
  12. Fabian

    Forms of stimming?

    I am doing for a long time now (years) and since my recent diagnosis was wondering whether it could be forms of stimming. I am becoming more sensitive and pick up more and more things about me since my diagnosis. I have not noticed that I stim much although I want to discuss these 3 things with...
  13. ErinH

    Aspies in Work

    Hi everyone, I work full-time and have done so since university (and worked part-time before uni), with the occasional year-or-two gap due to mental health difficulties (before I realised I could be aspie). I have always hated working in the sense that I can never seem to release myself from...
  14. Tyrantus1212

    Managing Anxieties - the FLOAT Method

    Hello everyone. My name is Mike and my psychologist thinks I have Asperger's. I initially went to him to inquire about my terrible anxieties, which I have been struggling with for many years. At the same time, I told him about everything else, that I'm just feeling different and fighting...
  15. Jorg

    The physical consequences of my stress and anxiety

    I tought it could be of some help for someone, or just to tell my story. I have 27 years old and since (I guess) a year ago I've started to feel different, I've always been stressed and axious but it wasn't until that time I started to change, first my good heart, humble and loving started to...
  16. Jorg

    Help. I'm becoming more anxious and angry everyday

    Welp, I need help I guess, for years I've felt the good inside me has decreased day after day and now I can't stand to be around people. I feel very frustrated and cynic with the years. As some of you know I'm an engineering student, it is said that the one I'm taking (electronic) is one of the...
  17. Ephraim Becker

    So much stress

    I have very bad thoughts in my mind, the house phone just rung, the walls are making noise, and I have a headache. I find myself bored, but I know I have something I want to do, just that I forgot what it is because I can't think right now.
  18. WereBear

    That DISSOLVING feeling...

    Does anyone get that? I used to wake up feeling like the glue that held my cells together was getting all liquidy and it took an effort of will to literally "get myself together." Now, knowing I'm an Aspie, this feeling does appear with stress. It is a cue for me to get my makeshift weighted...
  19. sisselcakes

    Accused of being negative

    Good evening. I was wondering if people can relate to this. Do you either find yourself being more negative or are you accused of being more negative when you're in a stressful situation? The reason I ask is because I notice since my daughter went off to college and I'm practically...
  20. WereBear

    Stress Tip: Pregnenolone

    I had a very long and twisty trip to diagnosis. I believe it started with sudden surgical endocrine crisis -- stupid doctor wanted to take out all reproductive organs, but I insisted on only the cystic ovary damaged by his medical indifference. Still, it threw me into menopause like I went over...
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