[NyxBean]

I have had a few stressful days of high emotion. I almost lost the person I am falling in love with (mutual) as... well, I was pig-headed and my empathy was delayed. Since I am an extremely recent diagnosis, I have yet to receive help in regulating the more negative aspects to myself. I'm 25 biological female, polygender, more masculine. I have no idea if that will make any difference, if I should focus more on female-aimed resources or anything.

Apologies if I'm not making much sense. Painful gastrointestinal cramps and alexithymia threw me when she said she wanted to give it all another chance. Emotions didn't happen. I suppose I used them up during the past few days. I used pictures and gifs as it was over IM though, so I could show her what I knew I must be feeling somewhere.

ANYWAY! While I was trying to show her that I knew I could work on noticing issues and learn to acclimatise to function as myself, finally, I promised I would find worksheets and other resources. Before my diagnosis I already had a psychologist and I will be tapping into the city's AS and HFA resource organisation when they actually get back to my email.

Rather than twiddle my thumbs until them, I really do want to find resources for adults to work through.

I know I will do better with printout sheets, written exercises, courses, shorter duration videos, etc. than I might be with trying to take in piles of articles.

Can anybody point me in the right direction? I think the parts I should focus on first are theory of the mind, empathy work, and recognising when a person is upset or hiding to please me. Oh, emotional regulation and areas to do with executive functioning too.

My head is killing me and my feet are paddling, which is going to get sore. People are such hard work but try as I might, I can't keep away from them. I'd be happy with just her and my carer (he's also involved with her but he and I have dated in the past so aren't linked). Hide away with our cats.

[Snips2314]

I'd like something like that as well!! I hope you find something! If you do, let me know? I"ll do the same for you

[Douglas MacNeill]

Count me in as well for some of that!

[vonmoxie]

I just did a google search for "mental health Downloadable Worksheets & Free Courses For Adults", and as far as worksheets go (I'm a self-starter) there were a lot of sites that came up, but this one in particular has a particularly excellent array of them in PDF. They are well laid out, have good detailed "prompts" to help get you started filling them in, and the only possible downside I can see is that the forms can't be entered in to, so a printer would be required to be able to use them right away.

Here's the site's pages for free documents and worksheets:

CBT Self Help Leaflets & Booklets
Therapy Worksheets
Cognitive Models & Formulation templates

There's some duplication of available forms between the pages, but also differences, and in total it looks like more than 250 different documents. The first two links also include a 7-part series of Self-Help CBT course documents.

And if that's overwhelming, they also have pages that provides links to only the most applicable PDFs based on specific diagnoses or specific therapy types:

Mental Health Problems - and their solutions
Solutions to mental health problems

I honestly didn't think there would be so many good forms available, because I swear I've looked before and came up with very little at the time. I'm glad this thread prompted me to look again, because I think some of these worksheets could help me, and maybe they can help others as well.

[Miktis25]

I recently decided to go back to school again now that I'm older and have an assistant to help me; she gave me a list of emotions and every evening my mother will act these out in front of a mirror and show me the facial expression so I can copy her and try learn to work them out for myself. It doesn't really help me personally but some have said it has helped them

[thecrankyone]

Thanks for the links