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Autism Mental Health What Depression Feels Like (MUST SEE!) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So often mental health you know this is what depression kind of
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  feels like from an autistic person.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the ASP world.
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  My name is Dan, I have autism, ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia and I
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  dope. So I wanted to do this shop kind
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  of you know, info video talking about like depression from like
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  an autistic point of view. Because you know, I've
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  definitely experienced depression a lot and it's so
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  different and difficult for people on the autism spectrum.
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  I look depression is difficult for anybody.
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  But what I'm trying to say is that it's unique for people on
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  the spectrum for a few different reasons.
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  But autism comes with a whole host of mental health
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  conditions, right? You know, you've got anxiety and
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  then you've got stress and you got depression and you've got,
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  you've got, there's loads of stuff in that agoraphobia,
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  claustrophobia, sensory processing disorders, loads of
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  things, right? But in terms of depression in
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  general, I've experienced depression quite a few times.
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  But the the weirdest thing happens because when you are,
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  when you're on the spectrum and and you're you're basically you
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  have communication issues and communication issues happen with
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  everything from talking to people to you know walking in a
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  straight line and picking something up to emotional
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  connections and understanding your emotions and then relaying
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  your your emotions and actually communicating your emotions
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  outward. So with depression, depression
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  is a really low mood low feel of like self like worthlessness and
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  something that happens as a as a result of something like a
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  catalyst. And depression is a mental
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  health condition obviously. But how do you deal with
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  something when you can't you know feel the emotions yourself.
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  How do you how do you define your own emotions?
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  It's hard for autistic people to dig down feel their emotions and
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  understand what's going on. So if you're depressed and
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  you're autistic, you're kind of at a disadvantage to understand
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  your emotions but then to try and tell somebody else how
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  you're feeling, what your emotions are, what depression
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  is. How is this affecting you?
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  Well, you're already at a loss because autism doesn't allow you
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  the ability to emotionally connect and talk and communicate
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  your emotions and feelings and things that easy.
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  You know, it takes a long time. It's very difficult for people
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  on the autism spectrum to do that and it's just it's just a
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  very difficult thing for people to do.
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  So I would say that if you know somebody who is autistic and,
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  you know, because most of these people are vulnerable to kind of
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  all susceptible to depression and stress and anxiety, then my
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  advice would be to look out for that person and and just look
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  out for them as like a Big Brother or big sister kind of
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  role and just kind of say, well, you know, if they're feeling
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  down, then just to let you know they're feeling down, they don't
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  have to try and explain themselves because it could be
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  depression. Right.
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  And the only way to really help them is to get, you know,
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  medical help from professionals. But if you can't get medical
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  help from professionals, the best thing you can do is just to
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  listen to them and make sure that they're safe and well in
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  themselves. And it's such a fascinating
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  thing. You know, I've experienced
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  depression because of the, the weather I get season affected
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  disorder, which I did a video on which I'll try and link down
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  below. And it caused depression.
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  You know, every year on this time I kind of get really
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  depressed, like January, February time.
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  And then I had depression when I was supposed to be on a TV show
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  and then the TV show, like, just decided to drop me and stuff.
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  And it was just horrible, you know, And that that was just, it
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  was just horrible. And I just couldn't really
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  describe how I was feeling. And that depression kind of
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  drove me even more. And so you can't describe how
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  you feel, but you're feeling low and then you just get lower and
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  lower and then you just end up just feeling like absolute
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  rubbish because you've got no way of explaining yourself.
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  You can't do that. You just can't do it.
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  So it's a very difficult one to deal with.
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  I hope this kind of makes some kind of sense to you guys.
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  If it does, pop me a comment down below.
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  Let me know how you feel about it.
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  I'd love to have that discussion and open that dialogue with you.
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  But yeah, it's just it's been an interesting video.
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  But you know, if it brought you value, please give it a thumbs
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  video. Peace.