Had my interview today...

to access training etc to get back to work via mental health charities. Found the whole thing incredibly stressful, was too depressed to move this morning, and now I want to bite everybody's head off. Even though it wasn't a "job" interview, I got so anxious about it before hand that it's going to take some time to process things. And tomorrow I have to go to the dentist to have sedation, and God knows how I'll react to that. I'm worried that my primary health coordinator is going to hear me talking crap while I'm under.

But I need it doing... just this is a more stressful week than I'd anticipated.

This all sounds quite stressful mgran.
But it's a good thing you acknowledge this and get it off your chest - not everyone does!
Try to focus on what you achieve despite the stress and everything that comes with it. You made it to the interview You are doing really well. One day at a time! I hope you don't get a bad reaction to the sedation but don't worry about what you might say while under, your health coordinator isn't just anyone, they wouldn't pay attention, or judge.

Take care and remember you have support for whatever comes

just for you!

awww mgran - good job going to the interview.
I actually did something like that years ago - i ended up taking a typing class to start and it was just enough to get me back in the swing of things.

as for sedation - I'm a huge fan myself. i think of it as the best sleep i can get, since i have so much trouble sleeping normally. it happens so quickly, and since you'll be at the dentist, they'll be working on your mouth so you won't be able to talk.

Sending tons of good vibes your way!
(((((((mgran)))))))

aww, mgran. it'll be okay! just like sadrobot says, take it one day at a time!

it takes lots of courage to interview when you're already extremely stressed out! Good for you!

Thank you all. Here I am at ten past three am, worrying about nothing probably. It was nice to see your responses. It helps to know you're out there sending good vibes. Thanks guys.

Well, I was scared witless, but wow, sedation works! I remember a little bit about the procedure, I remember moaning, and I remember sticking my tongue out, and raising my hand several times to my mouth, and the dentist gently bringing it down. And now I'm feeling suitably mellow and relaxed. Thank God!

Congrates at making two huge achv in two days! Something to be super proud of!!!! I hate dentists myself - I would rather be torutured by a thousand bees (which Im allergic too) then have a dentist work on my teeth. Thank goodness I was blessed with healthy, strong teeth and tought excellent oral care.

yay! I'm so glad it worked out for the better for you!

I, too, personally hate dentists with a passion; always have since i was a kid. I always got rough, mean, dentists, that yelled at me for not being perfect all the time, and noticed the smallest problems. >_>

But congrats!! two huge victories in two days.

Not only that, but because I wasn't kicking up a fit and breaking my teeth he was able to save the one they thought would be extracted. He used a white filling, and it actually looks normal again.

I've got another procedure to be done, and I'm on a cancellation list, so that if someone cancels next week or the week after I can have my appointment brough forward. I'm not in the least worried about it now. Given my dental phobia, I'm surprised nobody ever suggested sedation before, but good grief... this makes it doable! I know people with mental health problems have worse teeth than the rest of the population, but if sedation were easier to get hold of, then it wouldn't be nearly so difficult.

I'm still feeling pleasantly "buzzed" if that's the right word. It might just be the fact that I'm not frightened anymore.

Well, i'm glad you're feeling more comfortable knowing that you can do it sedated. I've never been sedated for a dental procedure, or any medical procedure come to think of it... but I have been under Novocaine a million and a half times. But from those who I know have been under, I have seen one right after he came back, and he was pretty loooopy (excuse the expression; he was pretty out of it for a day or so.) So, i'd say it lingers for a little while.

But i think we're all glad it went so well for you! Good luck on the second one!

As for the dental issues for ppl with mental illnesses, I wasn't aware of that statistic. But I know from experience depression, social isolation, and maybe a little aspergers on my end was a direct influence in my inability to practice good dental hygiene until I was much much older. Or any hygiene until I was an adult.

I was diagnosed as autistic when I was a child, and the pdoc tells me she thinks I'm on the aspie spectrum... my son is aspie also. I wonder how common that is a comorbid?

i was never diagnosed, but rather suspected. It was later learned that i was dissociating to escape the stress of everyday life into a bubble world filled with legos, tv, computer games, and over-eating. In comorbid, it developed into social anxiety, an intense phobia of rejection and abandonment as I feel rather alienated from social society. I was diagnosed BP II last year after about 6 months of observations and self reported episodes of mania, and depression.

But I have read a lot into it once my parents told me they suspected me autistic, and I have watched a lot of old home movies of me at a young age (like 4 or 5.), and I showed some autistic behaviors. Upon reading into AS, I have identified a lot into the social interaction aspects of AS, but little into the behavior or cognitive aspects of AS as an adult. Maybe AS is in remission; or I grew out of it, and into the world of BP, and Social Anxiety/Phobias.

But in any case, a lot of mental illnesses have been thought of as genetic, as well as other cases of developing them. BP is one of them, and I have been told my grand father was "very moody" on my father's side; it's possible it skipped a generation as my father reported instances of episodic depression, but no mania.

As for commonality of comorbid mental illness connected to AS, i'm not entirely sure to be honest. I have not met many other to have similar backgrounds in real life.