You say that depression certainly plays a part in what's going on with you. Depression could either be dysthymia, which is a milder but chronic depressed mood, or unipolar depression which is more severe but episodic depression. Anxiety is a broad category; anxiety can be of course, panic disorder, which involves recurrent panic attacks, or more OCD, which I have. OCD is more characterized by a series of intrusive, distressing thoughts (obsessions) which are generally about cleanliness, ie. germs, organizations etc. and ritualistic acts that are done to relieve the sufferer of distress. I haven't listed EVERY anxiety disorder however. Do you recognize your symptoms anywhere?