earthmama, anxiety and depression seem intertwined for me. I am realizing more and more how anxious I am. I have had major depression but am out of that now. The anxiety remains. I know some anti-depressants are better than others for people who have co-presenting anxiety (e.g. paxil, lexapro), so I guess this is a common thing.

I try to deal with anxiety by taking things off my plate so that I have fewer worries to attend to. That does help somewhat, but it's kind of an avoidant strategy. I guess I'm trying to get at the cause of my anxiety by doing that, which isn't a bad thing. But I think a big part of my problem is that I don't know how to deal with anxiety well. It feels like I will not survive. I need to go through the anxiety and learn to deal with it, rather than always just trying to reduce the cause of anxiety.