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Originally Posted by doodlefrog
Thanks for your response. I have had issues with anxiety, but usually they didn't crop up too much unless the depression is/was out of control. Anger was usually not a big symptom with my depression in the past, not like the anger I have dealt with for the past two years.
I guess some of the confusion was also brought on by the fact that I wasn't avoiding social situations at first. He moved out in March of 2014, and for about a year after, I wanted to and would go out with friends, date, etc. And then the desire to socialize just stopped- completely. I wasn't sure if my depression symptoms had changed, or if the depression was intertwining with other issues.
Being a nurse, I know better than to self-diagnose, although maybe that's part of the problem. Nurses have "just enough" knowledge to suspect a diagnosis. And a lot of us dread being diagnosed with something, because we have too good of an idea of what we'll be dealing with.
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You don't need to thank me for responding - that's what the forum is for, right? *hugs*
I had an aunt that was a nurse so I understand the conflicting feelings nurses have about self diagnosis
Like I said, I too am no psychiatrist or psychologist so I cannot truly diagnose you - but my ex husband has the "anger depression" where I have the "sad depression" that's how I know about the two of them. It seems to me perhaps your depression triggers off the anxiety or ptsd and vice versa (assuming that's what it is). I have depression, anxiety, ptsd, and borderline personality - and I know at times any of them can trigger any of the others and it ends up working like a domino effect until all of them have been triggered off. It's just something to consider - but either way I would go in and see what the psychiatrist has to say after testing you.