Irakus34
Just someone else in this world.
Hi o/
I'm Tomoya, 22yo and I'm here trying to seek help and answers. I was diagnosed with depression, anxiety disorder and OCD when I was 16yo. I thought treating these would lead me to be able to live normally. Though, it didn't happen. What's more, my symptoms just got worse.
I spent long years suffering in silence, masking all my symptoms to look fine and carry on a productive life. However, by curiosity, I checked what ASD was by real and not that surrealistic image TV wants so badly to sell (as did I too with ADHD, Schizophrenia and several more disorders as I'm studying so).
Against all odds, I found out my chances to be autistic were very high and I won't lie, I got kind of scared. Scared because when I told my family, they refused that posibility; when I told one friend, she also refused I could ever be autistic; even when I told my teacher, who has worked with autistic kids, she also refused the posibility, but kinda encouraged me to seek professional help if I think there might be something else aside of my previous diagnosis.
So, in the end, I'm here because no one believes me and I can't get any professional help right away due to my lack of resources so far.
I hope to at least find some help here to stop my intrussive, self-destroying thoughts I use to have regarding this matter until I get my chance to visit a psychiatrist.
Glad to be here. Hope I didn't do anything wrong in the way.
I'm Tomoya, 22yo and I'm here trying to seek help and answers. I was diagnosed with depression, anxiety disorder and OCD when I was 16yo. I thought treating these would lead me to be able to live normally. Though, it didn't happen. What's more, my symptoms just got worse.
I spent long years suffering in silence, masking all my symptoms to look fine and carry on a productive life. However, by curiosity, I checked what ASD was by real and not that surrealistic image TV wants so badly to sell (as did I too with ADHD, Schizophrenia and several more disorders as I'm studying so).
Against all odds, I found out my chances to be autistic were very high and I won't lie, I got kind of scared. Scared because when I told my family, they refused that posibility; when I told one friend, she also refused I could ever be autistic; even when I told my teacher, who has worked with autistic kids, she also refused the posibility, but kinda encouraged me to seek professional help if I think there might be something else aside of my previous diagnosis.
So, in the end, I'm here because no one believes me and I can't get any professional help right away due to my lack of resources so far.
I hope to at least find some help here to stop my intrussive, self-destroying thoughts I use to have regarding this matter until I get my chance to visit a psychiatrist.
Glad to be here. Hope I didn't do anything wrong in the way.