I never really noticed anxiety as being a problem for me before this episode of depression, but this time the anxiety is like nothing else. I find it very hard to distinguish between agitated depression and anxiety, but I'm starting to recognise the difference.

I've been horribly anxious today because yesterday some boys were messing with my gate and have caused some damage. I'm mad at them because what they did was quite deliberate and mindless, I want to have it out with their parents but then the anxiety rushes over me and all I can do is cry or tremble. Then I feel so useless because I can't sort out the kind of problem that routinely crops up in life.

I'm hoping that CBT will help me get over the worst of the anxiety, even though the reason I was referred was my depression.

It seems like depression and anxiety commonly occur together and they act like a vicious circle with each making the effects of the other far more unpleasant.