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Anxiety

Autism and Depression

March 26, 2012

I really don’t know if I should be writing about this, but I rarely see it online, and plenty of people with autism experience it.  I have depression.  It’s not every day or even every month.  A few times a year it sneaks up on me. What spurred this post is an article, “How to [...]

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Family TV Watching and Autism

May 8, 2009

You can help your child with autism lower their stress level with some simple rules about family TV watching. As a child and now an adult with autism and sensory processing disorder, I know that TV can be stressful to the point of jumping, tears, anger, confusion, and other reactions.   As an adult, I have [...]

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Relax Anxiety at the Dentist with a Weighted Blanket

April 10, 2009

Pressure on the body from a weighted blanket can relieve anxiety at the dentist’s office. For years, many people have enjoyed the weight from the heavy vest worn while getting x-rays at the dentist’s office as commonly known from a multitude of subjective accounts. Now they can get that relaxing feeling by wearing a weighted [...]

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