Posted 8/11/2017 7:01 PM (GMT 0)
I think you should consider seeing a psychiatrist, who can treat depression, anxiety and anxiety attacks.
A therapist might not guide you in that direction because that might be considered competition.
Depression, anxiety and anxiety attacks are treatable.
As for myself, I have bipolar and take Lithium, a mood stabilizer, for the mania and Mirtazapine for the depression.
When I was younger, at about 27, I had depression from losing a job and not being around people, and also because it was inherited, and also I was at or near the right age for emotional problems.
The untreated depression turned into anger, to intense anger, and then I had a nervous breakdown.
As far as the inherited part, for 10 years or more I never did get a correct diagnosis, until I was talking on the phone one day to a lay minister, who said, "I knew your uncle, and he was manic-depressive, and you probably are, too."
I told that to my psychiatrist, and I started getting a correct diagnosis, and the right medicine, Lithium, to go along with the antidepressant I was already taking. The Lithium helped greatly, by treating the mania for the first time.
So you want the correct diagnosis, so you can get the right medicine.
I also mentioned inheritance, to help with the diagnosis, and to help understand where any problems may have come from.
My mother's mother, had bipolar, so that's where it came from. So, it wasn't my fault, I just inherited it.
Do either parent or grandparent, or aunts and uncles have emotional problems? It can skip a generation, so one of your grandparents could have had such problems, but you parents might not, so you might want to look back a generation.
You might want to ask around and do that type of family history.