People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) can be particularly at risk of developing mental health difficulties such as anxiety and depression. Here, adults with Asperger Syndrome speak out about their own experiences of mental health issues, offering sound advice for other Aspies and providing valuable insights for family, friends and also for mental health professionals.
Touching on everything from difficulties at work and college to coping with low self-confidence, self-harm, alcohol, misdiagnosis, sectioning, counselling, medication and battles with mental health services, the book provides a window into how people with AS experience mental health issues, and what can be done to help. The individual accounts describe innovative coping strategies and methods for maintaining emotional and psychological wellbeing as well as practical advice on things like how to stay positive and deal with day-to-day stress and meltdowns.
This is essential reading for adults with Asperger Syndrome, and their families and friends, and will be a useful resource for psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health service providers and other professionals who support adults with Asperger Syndrome.
Table des matières
1. Mental Health Services and Me: What Worked, and What Didn’t, Janet Christmas. 2. Coping with Depression: Positive Advice for Aspies, Debbie Allen. 3. My Fur-lined Bucket: Alternative Methods of Dealing with Mental Health Issues, E Veronica Bliss. 4. This Aspie Life: The Undiagnosed Aspie Experience, 8ball. 5. A Colourful Rainbow: Embracing Autism as a Neurological Difference, Rather than a Mental Health Disorder, Melanie Smith. 6. Getting the Right Diagnosis, and its Impact on Mental Health: Is this the Best the NHS Can Do? Cornish. 7. Positive Mental Attitude: Coping with Setbacks, Knowing Your Own Strengths, and Finding Happiness Any Way You Can, Dean Worton. 8. “It’s all in your head”: The Dangers of Misdiagnosis, Neil Shepherd. 9. A Fairytale Life It Isn’t (AKA Chapter 9): Alcoholism, Self-harm, and the Benefits of Exercise, Alexandra Brown. 10. “Getting My Life Back”: A Mother’s Struggle to Get Mental Health Services for Herself and Her Son, Anne Henderson. 11. A Week in the Life Of: Strategies for Maintaining Mental Health as an Aspie, Steve Jarvis. 12. My Plastic Bubble: Dealing with Depression, Anxiety, and Low Self-confidence, Wendy Lim. 13. The Art of Being Content: Asperger Syndrome, Buddhism, and Me, Chris Mitchell. 14. My Journey through the US Mental Healthcare System and Beyond, Anthony Sclafani. 15. A Label that Fits: Diagnoses, Self-harm, and Mental Health, Natasha Goldthorpe. 16. Through the Looking Glass into Lynette Land: Making Humour Work, Lynette Marshall. 17. Mental Health and the Workplace: Dealing with Criticism, Coping with Stress, and Taking Control of Your Environment, Dr. Christopher Wilson.A propos de l’auteur
Chris Mitchell was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome in 1998, when he was 20 years old. Having completed an MA (Hons) in Information and Library Management, he currently works at Durham County Council. He is an active advocate for raising awareness of the positive aspects of AS, giving talks, seminars and workshops throughout the UK. He also offers mentoring and support services for school leavers and students entering higher education with AS. Chris has written an autobiography of his own experience of AS, entitled Glass Half-Empty, Glass Half-Full: How Asperger’s Syndrome Has Changed My Life and practices meditation in his spare time.Plus d’ebooks du même auteur(s) / Éditeur
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