madbutnotmad wrote:
anxiety disorders are the most common mental health conditions that are usually present with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Mental health, like Autism Spectrum Disorder, also presents itself in individuals in a spectral manner, with each person likely presenting their own paradigm of symptoms.
One of the reason why people with Autism Spectrum Disorder may be prone to suffering from anxiety disorders is likely connected to the extra complex nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder neurology, which has been proven to exhibit extra complex neural networks when compared to the neural typical individual.
In short, neurologists specialising in ASD have worked on years of research that examines the nature of the ASD patients neural networks when compared with normal people, using fMRI scanner tech.
The neurologists have come to the conclusion using this evidence that the extra networks as well as damage or dysfunction in other areas of the brain, are why people with ASD get sensory overload, as people with ASD pick up more sensory information than normal people.
It is logical to conclude that people with such extra neural networks who pick up more info will thus likely suffer from anxiety due to the extra stress their body and brains are under, as in essence, their brains are picking up more info than normal people but do not have the other areas of the brain developed to match their extra bandwidth of info.
So the part of the ASD brain is put under more pressure than normal people, but with out extra capacity to cope with that extra pressure. Or, due to damage, perhaps even less capacity than average.
Which makes the formula even more problematic, as extra bandwith but less capacity to cope, is a recipe for disaster.
And thus, meltdowns are the result.
I also believe that the part of the brain that deals with stress or stress hormone regulation gets damaged through overexposure to elevated levels of stress hormones over time, which has an impact on the damaged brain to then properly regulate the stress.
I have read also that people who suffer from prolonged exposure to high stress levels, who have this part of their brain damaged (Hippocampus, Amgdyla) go onto to suffering from depression if exposed to elevated stress levels for long enough, and then later on, end up suffering not only from clinical depression but also more complex anxiety disorders.
Unfortunately for us, the modern world is not designed to help people with anxiety, and if anything, is one of the stressors that leads to these types of permanent damages that are caused to the brain.
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in people with ASD, it is thought that brain damage may develop somewhere during the early developmental timeline in a persons early pediatric development.
I think it is possible that the damage may occur during pregnancy, during birth or during early life.
Perhaps all three or a combination of the three.
I know for example that pregnancy, genetic disposition, birth and early years are significant for clinical psychologists who are involved in the diagnostic process. So. yup brain damage to the area of the brain that copes with stress is likely and logically going to cause the victim of autism to end up suffering from anxiety. crap deal, yup but there ya go.
Other factors may also play a part, including brain biology.
There is something here that seems to make sense to me. You mention that people can have issues in different ways. Is it possible that the energy loss I get happens when my mind can't cope with stress, as in something (Sometimes even I don't know what triggers it, but most of the time it is stress or sudden stress) sends me into a kind of almost a faint but I call it energy loss as it is not quite the same, and if I go deep into it I am shaky and also my eyesight starts to go at the same time as loud tinitus sets in at a decresing pitch from a mid tone to a low tone as my eyesight shuts off. (Only get it thag bad if I can't find somewhere quiet to lie down and relax quick enough. Normally I just lie down for a while and wait to recover). I have noticed that when I recover I am sometimes in a state of not quite fully eecovered and I hear people spwakinb to me but it does not make sense. In other words, my brain has not captured what they are saying and as I am struggling to try to recover I find myself saying yes to their "Do you understand" just because I need extra time to recover, as if I said "No" they would try to repeat what they say when it takes effort to try to listen to them.
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28 May 2019, 12:28 pm
