(November 3, 2019 at 10:05 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Depression, and Pure-O OCD. That's the unholy trinity for me.
That's my 27 year old stepson, if you add in extreme perfectionism with the associated self-loathing. Oh, and social anxiety.
If you don't mind saying so -- what's the thing you found most helpful for you? My wife and I are kind of at wit's end with our stepson. He's not launching and in many ways he's kind of collapsing around all this. It took him 7 years to get his undergrad degree and he still dreams of grad school and academia when he's afraid of even writing his professors for letters of reference and can't focus enough to read on his topics of interest. He subcontracts for me as a data analyst and does excellent work, just not much of it. He's been unresponsive to most meds, went off his drug cocktail under doctor's supervision and doesn't seem either better or worse apart from facial tics which we'll get him back onto meds for. We're thinking he needs therapy as we're in over our head. But he's a hard nut to crack and we're not sure he's really that open to it. Too much rigid thinking. We hired a personal trainer for him and he's taken to physical exercise; he's a natural athlete. But we're starting to think he's going to be camped out here for the rest of our lives.
