Not sure what to do...

[MercedesBenz23]

Hi to everyone and anyone who may read this,

I'm diagnosed as autistic and received my diagnosis recently as a 33 year old adult. Currently I feel like I'm so burnt out. Don't get me wrong, its great to have a diagnosis but I just feel so worn down, like I cant continue like this much longer. It's hard to explain. My family have encouraged me to reach out for help and support but I don't know what's available and seem to have been turned away from various therapy services. I'm feeling quite hopeless and just generally overwhelmed with life. I'm not even sure how I'm here to be honest in this forum. I think I might have signed up thinking it was therapy and I just received an email and here I am. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. I'm in Derby if that helps me access any services local to me.

 

[MandyH]

Hi to everyone and anyone who may read this,

I'm diagnosed as autistic and received my diagnosis recently as a 33 year old adult. Currently I feel like I'm so burnt out. Don't get me wrong, its great to have a diagnosis but I just feel so worn down, like I cant continue like this much longer. It's hard to explain. My family have encouraged me to reach out for help and support but I don't know what's available and seem to have been turned away from various therapy services. I'm feeling quite hopeless and just generally overwhelmed with life. I'm not even sure how I'm here to be honest in this forum. I think I might have signed up thinking it was therapy and I just received an email and here I am. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated. I'm in Derby if that helps me access any services local to me.

Hi. NDSA doesn't offer therapy but does offer a mentoring course for newly diagnosed or self identified autistic people. A new course is literally about to start so you may be just too late for that but another one will run in the spring - I'm a mentor, and feedback from mentees is very positive.

What you describe is sadly very typical - I was diagnosed at 62 and went through the same emotions but am now in a much better place.

I do know that NDSA offer meet ups in the Derbyshire area. They were advertised on Facebook though I can't find them on here so am attempting to attach a screenshot. That might be a useful thing to explore.