anxiety in depression

im just wondering does anxietys go with deprission

Well, they often go together.

katheryn,

a dr i use to see said that my depression was caused by continual anxiety and seeing no let up, depression sets in and anxiety gets worse, as the anxiety gets worse, the depression gets worse and the continuous cycle begins. he worked on both issues with me and it was greatly relieved many years ago. the depression has stayed minimal even tho i live pretty anxious.

good luck!

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the depression has stayed minimal even tho i live pretty anxious.

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I agree, this is a common outcome I think. We can tone down a lot of the symptoms, but the anxiety does tend to stick around, more or less. We learn to cope with it, and sometimes it's easier then others.

Good luck katheryn, hope you'll stay with us!

Cheers, M

I get like that. Going from being really anxious and like a cat on a hot tin roof. Lol. Then I'm so depressed. Then I'm anxious again. I can't really remember being in the middle much. What is the middle? Last week I thought the depression had gone but it was just liked I had changed channels for a while. Then I was depressed again. Very confusing. Sometimes I feel like such a hypochondriac (however you spell that word) or that people will think I am. But why do i think that when I don't suppose i talk about how I'm going much to people anyway. I think I just expect that I should be able myself to snap out of this viscious circle. Wait a minute, it's my life.

One way of seeing this is to assume that the depression showed up first, and that it's causing the anxiety, or that the anxiety showed up first and is causing the depression. You can also look outside strict diagnostic thinking. Instead of viewing this as two seperate problems, you could view the symptoms as being part of the same problem.

yah, I always thought for me that the depression came first and then the anxiety, but i was dx'ed "anxiety with depression" and I thought, so they know better than me do they which cam e first? But I think that 'anxiety with depression' is a standard dx, i suppose they work off the theory that it's the anxiety causing the depression because anxiety is easier to treat than depression...

All sounds pretty hard to work out but I suppose that isn't my job anyway. I'll just leave it up to the people who are helping me.

For me they've gone hand-in-hand, but I can't determine which came first; whether my depression is caused by anxiety preventing me from doing things I otherwise would have been able to, or that my depression has isolated me to the extent that the outside world seems hostile and alien, fuelling the anxiety. Probably a bit of both.

Ah well.

thank you all for your replies im trying to help my husband hes been diagnoised with depression but he gets very anxious and some times has panic attacks, im been treated with depression for the last 8mths and nearly about to come of my meds this is the second time ive been depressed i know why i became depressed i have a very disfunctional family and with the break up of my marriage this all just got to much for me but my husband has all ways been worried that ppl talk about him and some other problems have cropped up since and this is holding in his depression he cant find the energy to fight of the horrible black thoughts hes been on meds now for 5wks but the doc changed them last week im trying to help by understanding as much as i can hopping he will eventually pull through i susspected he was depressed back in may but he wouldnt go docs so hes been like this for a while thank you all again

So sorry to hear about your husband, Katheryn. Kudos to you for doing what you can to help him out. I'm sure it means a lot to him to have your support.

hi katheryn
your husband sounds like hes lucky to have someone like you to look out for him... but you said you to were / are depressed ? how are you coping with your husband while your depressed also ? you must be some sort of super woman.