Its pretty common knowledge that Aspergers and depression go hand in hand, so should depression is Aspergers be treated with anti-depressants or therapy. I believe that if the depression is the result of a deficit in skills therapy should be provided to help the skills of the person, rather then using an anti-depressant. I think using an anti-depressant should be a last resort type thing, as it introduces sometimes horrible side effects and sometimes even death.
What are your thoughts?
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i’ve been thru cognitive behavioral therapy CBT – a waste of my time seeing a psych for this, i cld hv bought a book (there is a great one out there by Valerie Gaus – just google) and done it myself… it works as far as ‘positive thinking’ works – i.e. some
meds? i wish i cld find a magic pill to pop – but anti depression meds can hv the side effect of causing more depression and even suicidal tendencies in some… i took something once long ago and i had terrible side effects… never tried again… but i kw it works well for some of my friends, both NTs and aspies…
go figure…
and thanks again, zach… i like ur biting honesty and insights, so i’d like to put ur blog in my “links” in my blog…. hope that is ok with u?
Thats fine.