psychology

Is Mindfulness Logical for Asperger’s and Depression?

Mindfulness, meditation and self-talk are important ways of helping yourself when you’re depressed, stressed out, anxious or emotional. They’ve been shown to help handle feelings and are actually often used as components of the most helpful forms of therapy, cognitive therapy. Why is it important to talk about these threeContinue Reading

Handling Social Anxiety for Self-Fulfillment

By: Marcia Eckerd

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I’m emailing with Kris Jones, an eloquent writer on Linkedin about his Asperger’s Syndrome. We’re talking about the stressors he experiences that can create extremely self-limiting anxiety. We’re going to use several blogs to talk about different stressors. Kris’s first stressor was his lack of self–fulfillment. One of the causesContinue Reading

Are You an Aspie and Depressed? That’s Not Unusual

By: Marcia Eckerd

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As most teens and adults with Asperger syndrome know, people with Asperger syndrome can be significantly depressed. The rates of diagnoses of depression vary among studies, from 18% to 22%. The most commonly quoted rate of a depression in the general population of the US is 6.7%. Most of theContinue Reading

Are People with Aspergers as “Logical” as They Think?

By: Marcia Eckerd

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One of the hallmarks of Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) is that individuals often have strong points of view, and they have trouble seeing other points of view as equally valid. Most see themselves as extremely logical and therefore right in their conclusions; for them, the points of view of others canContinue Reading

Autism: A History of Blame

By: Katherine Goodsell

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There was a new study recently posted on DisabilityScoop titled, Parent-Led Intervention May Lower Kids’ Autism Risk . Researchers again are dusting off the premise that Autism can be ‘cured’ by ways of changing the parental nurturing interaction early in life. Although I read the study and it wasn’t asContinue Reading

Is Mindfulness Logical for Asperger’s and Depression?

Autism: A History of Blame

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