I have been dealing with Asperger's Syndrome (undiagnosed) for years, resulting in increasing anger, depression, alienation, and frustration at how callous and stupid the counselours and their pseudo-solutions are. They seem to be just like everyone else: I don't "seem" depressed so they treat me like an angsty teenager trying to get free narcotics (I am 28, by the way). I'm unemployed because I can not work in environments that require customer service, noisy co-workers, etc. It bugs the $#%^ out of me, I'd rather be poor than surrounded by people I can't stand doing something I don't care about.
In my childhood I was IMMEDIATELY turned off to counselours who had nothing but trite moralizing and obvious inability to think conceptually about values and desires. I am on board with philosophical anti-psychiatry and I also reject most of those Pfeizer poisons as sugar pills or worse, as far as I can tell it's just a scheme to make money off of the pseudo-science of psychiatry. I was prescribed some by a doctor and I'm done, I'm not taking that CRAP anymore. If they want to give me something that has at least some real mood-modifying effects (THC, Lyrica) that's a different story, but if a doctor hands me a slip of paper that says 'Zoloft' I'm throwing it in the garbage; I don't enjoy taking IQ-reducing junk so I can not-feel-better.
It seems like mental wellness counseling, just like the rest of the NT world, has no place for people who don't buy into their cons and don't benefit from their talky-talky emotional crap. I've been reading Nomi Kaim and Paul Coojiman's today. I just found their articles and they have really struck a chord. After that, I went on Google and looked for the experience of Aspies with psychiatrists and the drugs they push for the State-Medical complex, and most of them came up with the same thing I did: it not only did not help, but dealing with people who don't understand you or even take your seriously only makes things worse. This is how I am right now, their trite advice may work for your average Primate Joe but all it does is make me feel even more alienated and hopeless than before.
I am unemployed, as I said, yet I can't get access to DSHS because I don't have proper psychiatric evaluations, and I can't afford to get those because I'm unemployed, and whenever I've bothered to talk to counselours or doctors about this all I get is the same non-advice.
I have tried the stuff they tell you in depression manuals: I've worked out, I've gotten a job, I've tried to socialize with people; all that does is make things worse. The deepest depression I've ever dealt with came from the perpetual alienation and stress of dealing with people who I felt no connexion to at work; putting forth so much effort and getting nothing but WORSE.
How the Hell do you get help when all anyone wants to offer you is bad advice and opinions disguised as science? I'm about ready to just give it up, I am SICK of filling out God damn forms just so I can have my opinion ignored in favor of some know-nothing desk jockey with an IQ 30 points beneath mine and be told that I don't qualify for social security because aforesaid desk jockey has his head up his ass.