Question:
I've been suffering with terrible anxiety with no apparent cause for awhile, which makes it very hard to sleep. I'm also finding it difficult to concentrate because of my high heart rate. As a result of this (I think), I'm feeling very 'down'. I was wondering how much Depression and Anxiety are connected - do they both relate to the same thing? I'm planning on speaking to my GP, and don't want to give him the wrong impression.
Answer:
In my case they feed each other.
I tried explaining it to my GP...I find it hard to explain my anxiety...just
do you best and say what you feel which makes it very hard to sleep. I'm also finding it difficult to concentrate because of my high heart rate. As a result of this (I think), I'm feeling very 'down'. I was wondering how much I'm planning on speaking to my GP, and don't want to give him the wrong impression. They are most definitely connected, in my opinion. In my case, you can't have one without the other.
When I get anxious I get depressed, or maybe manic. (I am awaiting a firm
diagnosis on my condition, it could be bipolar depression)
They often go hand in hand. Wether it's having the two disorders at once
or having anxiety as a symptom of the depression is hard to tell. Seeing
as depressive science is all theory anyway it's impossible to know.
However there are links and it is quiet common. A lot of AD's treat
anxiety too, like Prozac and Seroxat. Notably however they can also
*cause* anxiety as a side effect. Lack of sleep can set off them both too. Anxiety often leads to depression i'm sure but they are serparate
conditions.Anti depressants tend to improve both of those things but you can
get AD meds for anxiety if that would help. i agree with Karen - they can feed each other and often either the
depression caused the anxiety or vice versa, but it's a big feeback loop Nobody knows. Anyone who says that they *do* have a firm answer is
either deluding themselves or just plain bullshitting. FWIW, I tend to get most anxious when most depressed. There's some sort
of link in my case. Nobody knows what, and I've been offered no help
beyond drugs which can't fix the problem. Of couurse there is a connection any idiot who says there isn't has
probably escaped from their playpen. DEPRESSION-ANXIETY-DEPRESSION -ANXIETY
round and round it damn well goes. I suppose that must make me an idiot. I suffer from depression but do *not*
suffer from anxiety. Now if you could please direct me back to my playpen I
will be able to resume sucking my thumb and rocking backwards and forwards. It's not like that with me. I've met people who've had serious anxiety
with no sign of depression and vice versa. The links are *complex*. Just because some people do not have anxiety with their depression does
not mean that anxiety and depression are unconnected. Signficantly more
people with depression suffer from anxiety when compared to the population
at large.
If you do not then you are lucky. For some of us it is one hell of a thing
to deal with. An alternative hypothesis is that the person posting under the name
disintegrated can't spot the difference between and arse and an elbow
and can therefore be ignored.
