Finding Autism in Mental Illness
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After being diagnosed with Autism Travis loses his autism to a devastating mental illness schizophrenia. After spending years trying to find the right medications and treatments for schizophrenia he finally gets his mental illness under control. It is only then that he can truly look into himself and see the autism as part of who he is and a blessing that will have an everlasting impact on him. After being diagnosed with autism Travis is diagnosed with Schizophrenia two years later. For ten years his life was a roller coaster of up and downs as he tried to figure out what he thought was autism but really it was schizophrenia. Travis tries to understand all of his voices and visions and how they are related to autism but in the end he finds out they were not really related to autism at all. This book is a first hand demonstration of how autism can easily become lost in mental illness. Travis will show you how his autism became lost in his schizophrenia and then show you the step by step process he took to re-finding his autism so that he could get his life back. This is an emotional first-hand account of a young man struggling to find himself through his mental illness and autism. As he begins to recover from schizophrenia Travis begins to develop an amazing life for himself as a young man with autism spectrum disorder.
Travis Breeding
Travis is an author from Huntington Indiana how enjoys entertaining and educating through words. He enjoys telling a story and taking it from his mind to paper. He has authored several books on autism, mental illness, schizophrenia, and disability issues. He continues to write about those issues but also explores some fiction writing as well. Travis has a loving family and enjoys spending time with friends and family. He loves to play bingo and meet new people. One day Travis hopes to start a family of his own and give them so much love. Travis would like to thank his readers for supporting him on his journey of becoming an author. He could not have done it without you. If you would like to get in touch with Travis please email him at tbreedauthoratgmaildotcom,
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Finding Autism in Mental Illness - Travis Breeding
Finding Autism in Mental Illness
Travis Breeding
Published by Travis Breeding at Smashwords
Copyright 2017 Travis Breeding
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Contents
1 Lost in Mental Illness
2 Getting Stable
3 Re-Finding Autism
About the Author
Lost in Mental Illness
I was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in 2007. As I would later find out there were also many more things going on with me than just autism. In fact, the autism would get lost in the big heaping mess of mental illness that I also had but did not know about. The mental illness would eventually take over my life and cause everything about my life to spiral out of control.
The mental illness trumped the autism and made it so I could not even focus on simple tasks. Autism became something that I thought about all the time when I was first diagnosed but by the time I had reached 2011 I was suffering from things that were not at all related to autism. Just because they were not related to autism does not mean that they were not things that I thought or assumed were related to autism.
I had no other diagnosis to go on other than the autism because that is all I had ever been diagnosed with. But people kept telling me autism was not all that bad and things were spiraling out of control for me to reach levels that I had never felt before.
I was in so much mental and emotional pain. I did not know how to wake up each day and function. Autism may make social situations harder or make it more difficult to deal with people but mental illness entirely trumps autism and makes it impossible to deal with people because you are constantly in a state of psychosis or mania.
My mental illness would become so bad over the years that I was not even able to think about autism. I think there were times that I forgot I had it even though I was obsessed with having it and tried to tell everyone in the world that I had autism.
I wanted to have autism because I wanted to be able to learn social skills. I had always known there was something wrong with my social skills. This was all true but maybe it was not all because of the autism. Maybe there were some other issues going on with my mental illness. I do not know but whatever the case may be I was suffering from a great deal of social isolation and pain because I did not know how to socialize and make friends.
People who have mental illness sometimes have issues socializing as well because of everything that is going on within their brain. Socializing is very difficult for me and I have it harder because I have a double diagnosis of autism and schizophrenia.
You can imagine how hard it is to socialize when you have autism. But what people do not think about is how hard it is to socialize with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia can pretty much take over your life and it makes autism