Saturday, 20 March 2010
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Anxiety Still Present
The biomedical interventions are helping a lot. The new Mike is very easy to get along with, but still doesn’t necessarily understand what someone else is thinking. Also, he still seems to have a pretty high level of anxiety, which is a hallmark of Asperger’s as I have experienced it with my kids. For Mike, this comes out when a thunderstorm is headed our way, as it was last night. He was fretting and fretting about tornadoes, and it was time to go to bed. So we prayed about the fear and got out a white noise machine for him. Then he went to bed. He says he slept fine. The storm did arrive in the night. I guess he didn’t hear it.
He’s been on medication for anxiety, clonazepam. I am thinking it isn’t working. I’m going to try gradually taking him off it. It’s the last prescription medication he is on.
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- About Me: I am Phyllis Wheeler, mother of two kids with Asperger's: "Mike" and "Shannon."
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Taking him off Klonopin will initially increase the anxiety, so taper as little as possible? That's one of the many benzos I've tried and at peak I was up to 8mg a day, it's hard to get off of. It's addiction propensity is physical, not mental.