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Other Ptsd and aspergers or something else?

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Julian

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My therapist thinks I have ptsd from the traumatic period I went through school at my late school years. I have an social anxiety disorder which had been brought on by this, but I have been given a significant amount of help for this. I don't get any flashbacks or any of the symptoms of what most people with ptsd get, I usually most often get constant intrusive memories of the traumatic event that happened, or sometimes I get random memories
that aren't even related. I constantly get intrusive thoughts are very persistent and won't go away, and I find it extremely hard to ignore them, especially when I am stressed, anxious or worried about something. When I get them they usually last for hours and sometimes they even take up half of my day, and I often get thoughts that come in after another, a lot of the time they're are just completely random. For example sometimes I get weird thoughts like, thinking about something but exactly how it happened or even thoughts like, if I like something I get a thought pop up, without my control. telling me I don't like it. It's not like a voice like a auditory hallucination but more of a thought. I do occasionally unintentional thoughts such as suicidal thoughts, thoughts of harming my cat or parents, sexual thoughts or sometimes self negative talk. The point is that most of the thoughts that come in my head are pointless and stupid, because of the content, and this is what the title suggests is this related to ptsd and my asperger's or is it something else, as my therapist seems to think that most likely is ptsd?
 
It's the combination of ptsd ánd autism, I wish I have the answer for you, as that struggle is very familiar to me, but so farI haven't found the answer. Several therapists have also told me they "cant help with whats going on ín my head" (like wtf what are you fór then?!), the only suggestion that seems workable at all is mindfulness. Find something that pulls you in the here and now. What that something ought to be I really dont know, I havent found anything that works yet.

Sorry for the rambling, typing a coherent story while triggered is hard for me, apologies if I thereby triggered anybody.
 
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