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Depression and Anxiety: Why So Many People Have Both

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Posted 2/5/2018 10:03 PM (GMT 0)
How closely related do you think that Depression and Anxiety are? This explains the topic fairly well:

I am sorry but blog links are only allowed in your profile, not in posts on the forum.

Thanks in advance for understanding.

Hugs, Karen...

Post Edited By Moderator (getting by) : 2/6/2018 2:34:53 AM (GMT-7)

Posted 2/5/2018 10:56 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for the link, I skimmed it and it looks interesting.

Who are you? How does this apply to you personally? What are your feelings on the topic? If you add some human elements to your post it would feel less like click bait.
Posted 2/6/2018 12:44 PM (GMT 0)
Didn't get a chance to see the blog before the link was deleted, but I think they are closely related although my feeling is that anxiety is more likely to lead to depression than vice versa. For a start anxiety is an actively unpleasant and debilitating state of mind in its own right. Everyone is anxious about something occasionally - that is normal. But when the anxiety is deep-rooted and goes on and on with no end in sight, it places a massive amount of stress on the body. It's not surpising people with anxiety are often depressed as well.

Somebody who is clinically depressed without the anxiety, however, has gone beyond the point of being able to worry about the future. They know that everything is bad, always will be bad and have given up caring. Oddly enough it's easier to endure than severe anxiety in a way: sure, you're not exactly having fun but at least you're not horribly agitated all the time either.
Posted 3/17/2018 4:59 AM (GMT 0)
sad

My depression started at 10 and my anxiety started at 30. Being 20 years apart, not sure if there is really a link there. But having both together is the pits.

I don't want to take medication as I am worried about becoming addicted and / or the potential side effects.

I have found Emotional Freedom Technique lowers my depression, and Bach Flower Rescue Remedy to be beneficial for the anxiety and panic attacks.

Along with reflexology, massage, hypnosis, acupuncture, exercise, guided meditations, herbal adaptogens and change of diet.

Giving up alcohol has also helped enormously, along with deleting Facebook.

Little steps but big impacts.

Hope you find relief too
Posted 3/27/2018 6:41 AM (GMT 0)
whats Facebook got to do with anxiety?
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