Dr. Megan Anna Neff
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first heard Jul 2023
last heard Jun 2025
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Because your mind is screaming at you that this is not working.
So a lot of suicidal ideation is your mind is trying to give you an exit ramp because the situation you're in is creating so much suffering or pain.
Absolutely.
And this is part of, I think, what makes it so tricky.
It makes so much sense that autistic burnout would often result in depression.
Because if we think about some of the things that make us vulnerable to depression, when our lives are not aligned with what matters to us and our values, when we don't have access to meaningful connections or meaningful activities...
There's so much vulnerability for depression or when we're feeling negative about ourselves.
So if we think about burnout, skill regression, or I don't have energy to engage meaningfully with others, I don't have energy to engage in my interests.
And so, of course, of course, that's going to set us up for depression.
It just makes sense.
So, yes, then we show up in therapy and maybe there's not even awareness of autism, let alone autistic burnout.
And there's a few things I see that can happen that end up kind of getting us stuck.
A common treatment for depression is called behavioral activation.
And I actually find it a really effective treatment for depression.
I will do this when I'm depressed.
It's because our fatigue is so high when we're depressed, we fall into what's called the lethargy cycle where it's like, well, my mood is low.
I'm going to do less.
And then the less we do, the less sense of achievement we have, the less sense of accomplishment, the less access to the things that give our lives meaning.
So then our mood decreases further.
So behavioral activation is a way of interrupting that cycle of saying, we're going to get some momentum here.
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