For years, I've had both depression and anxiety. Mainly, I have worried about the depression, and have been on meds for that for a long time.

I am finding out now that anxiety is becoming a much bigger issue in my life, which seems hardly possible because my depression has been so overwhelming.

I am finding that what I think is depression, is, sometimes, more to do with anxiety.

I go to sleep dreading waking up in the morning. That seems to be when I have very severe anxiety. I wake up scared.

I have Temazepam to take at night for insomnia. My antidepressant puts me to sleep pretty well, so I don't always use the Temazepam (Restoril.)

Well, this morning the anxiety was extra-severe. I called a hot line saying that I was feeling vaguely suicidal, not from being depressed, but from wanting to escape anxiety. The person at the line was real nice and I calmed down a bit. Within a half hour, I was having fits with the anxiety. So I tried an experiment. I took one of my Temazepams.

Well, that worked way better than I had possibly hoped. Since that drug is a tranquilizer, I have a feeling that a lot of what I sometimes think is servere depression is really severe anxiety. As a child, I had severe anxiety at times. So, today, I am visiting the anxiety forum. Usually, I am over on the depression sites. Now, I want to learn more about anxiety.

I now believe that anxiety can cause as much, or more, mental anguish than depression.

Temazempam may not be the ultimate answer, but I am going to ask my doctors to focus more on anxiety.

By the way, they put me on Ritalin for my depression. It did help. But I have to keep stopping it because it fuels anxiety.

I was given Neurontin (Gabapentine) for anxiety and had mixed results with that. It makes me twitchy.

Being unemployed has created this anxiety nightmare. And it is a nightmare.