[wushuduck]

Does anyone get this? Where you have a constant pit in your stomach and you can't bare to think into the future. Is this a part of depression or is it anxiety?

[Notoriousglo]

Yep..all of the time. I don't know what it is.

[brainhi]

I can be both. Anxiety and depression are my battles. I'm never really sure if it starts out as anxiety and then I run my brain down to depression. Or if it's reversed. And both together - I believe in many cases they both go hand in hand. I went thru a really rough period a couple months back (and could not pull myself out of it) - we changed my medication a bit so I could get through - the anxiety was kicking my butt. That helped me - I still tackle the same challenges but I can take care of them without that dread in the pit of my stomach

YES. I have it all the time. Sometimes (mornings) worse than others. My p-doc refers to it (in my case) as "negative hypo-mania." I dunno...it's anxiety or depression or something caused by haywire neurochemicals and stress overload.

[Werewoman]

I can't remember when I didn't have that feeling. Mine is definitely anxiety. Once, during an EMDR session, my T asked me to envision what it looked like, and the first image that popped into my mind was a black rotten walnut with an evil face.

After that, one day my T shows up for my session and gives me a black rotten walnut she found. I carry it with me everywhere I go and look forward to the day when I can let go of it and smash it with a hammer. My hope is that when I do that, it means I don't need to feel that way anymore.

[The_Berry]

Originally Posted by Notoriousglo

Yep..all of the time. I don't know what it is.

How do you cope. I don't know what to do. I feel like I've been told I'm going to hell or something. It feels so real. I always have it to varying degrees. I can never forget it.

[Sunflower123]

Originally Posted by The_Berry

How do you cope. I don't know what to do. I feel like I've been told I'm going to hell or something. It feels so real. I always have it to varying degrees. I can never forget it.

Do you take meditacation or therapy to give you some relief? I suffer from this sometimes. I don’t know if it’s my anxiety or depression but it’s awful.

[*Laurie*]

This thread is 3 years old.

Anyway, that 'dread' feeling is absolutely horrible and is anxiety/depression...and could also be a dysphoric hypomania, as someone mentioned.

[Werewoman]

What difference does it make how old a thread is, especially since the topic is still relevant?

[rjdb]

I get this often. I believe it is the assumption that something bad has to happen. If you have been doing a lot of good things lately, taking care of your problems, making progress, you have a underlying assumption that something bad has to happen. My therapist said that this is a way that we attempt to control the unknown way in which bad things happen.

This often manifests itself as assuming something physical will happen. My uncle had a cardiac arrest at 42, out of nowhere. The arbitrary randomness of it was very frightening to me, because he seemed to be getting his life under control. There is no scientific basis for thinking that the same will happen to me when I start to get my life in order, but the fear remains.

I've had it too. From my experience, I think it's my body fearing something in my life whether it's about work or at home.

[DowdyTheFifth]

I have this as well, I am constantly worried something is going to go wrong, where I assume it has to go wrong just because of how my anxiety and depression make me feel. This persistent feeling of worry and dread makes me super-aware of my surroundings, the best I can describe it is as hyper-vigilance. This feeling is very taxing on the mind at least for me.

[WoundedGirl]

Originally Posted by wushuduck

Does anyone get this? Where you have a constant pit in your stomach and you can't bare to think into the future. Is this a part of depression or is it anxiety?

When it happens like that me I think it’s dymptoms of both.

Hope it gets better. I’ve really been trying hard to work on mindfulness exercises while I go through some personal hell issues and I cannot believe how much it helps to get rid of that pit.

Good luck!!