
Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
Anxiety, plain and simply, is fear -- it may be a constant low-level feeling of dread, an uncomfortableness with things that's strong enough to prevent you from doing what you want to do. Or it may rise to the level of terror so great you feel like you might die from the fear.
Depression, tho, makes you feel flat and deprives you of joy. Think of all the colors in the world fading out to gray. Things you used to enjoy just don't interest you any more, and you may feel sad to the point of crying. You have trouble remembering good times but you'll find yourself thinking about unhappy events in your life. You may start wondering if there's any reason to get out of bed, or even to go on living. The key word here is sadness, from mild to crushing.
What can get confusing is that you can have both at the same time. And sometimes it's hard to figure whether you're impeded by the fear or by the sadness.
I hope some of that made sense -- I haven't had breakfast yet so I'm not really awake....
Anxiety is Fear (Social Phobia, Fear of places and situations)
Depression is Emotional Sadness (Overwhelming negative thoughts and sadness that blacken any joy in your life)
I believe my anxiety in my teens caused my depression because I got very down about waking up anxious and the nervous energy I spent on each day just living.
Now I get depressed and sometimes I get anxious.
Which is worse? I would personally say that depression is worse although the physical feelings of anxiety can be very difficult.
Anxiety is easier to treat because it is Fear of something or someone, but depression is difficult to bring yourself out of.
Now, I just have to learn to retrain myself to get used to more positive and realistic emotions and not look for the 'what ifs' all the time.
The hard part is working out why i'm anxious as there doesn't seem to be any specific situations that cause anxiety...just a general feeling of it all the time.
I totally agree with everyone here...they are definately related and can both rear their ugly heads at the same time.
My anxiety is a result of my long term, but mild depression...but someone else may have severe anxiety over time that leads to depression.
It's six of one and half a dozen of the other.
Hope this helps in some small way.