How closely do you feel that anxiety and depression are linked?

[JLD]

Are they different sides of the same coin?

I have always suffered from anxiety much more than from depression. I have had moments, though. After a really long and grueling episode with anxiety, I sometimes lapse into depression but the anxiety always takes center stage.

 

[MainerMikeBrown]

Excessive anxiety can cause depression and depression can cause excessive anxiety.

 

[TDub]

JLD I myself have the same view. My anxiety would get to a point where I couldn’t control it and that would lead to depression. They’re really the same coin different side.

 

[MainerMikeBrown]

When I had excessive anxiety issues, after a while, I started to get depressed, in part, because of the anxieties.

Back in the 2000's, I tried many different psychiatric medications under doctors orders. I also had the meds that I was already on adjusted more than once. I was also in therapy. But none of it was working.

Hence, I became depressed at times back in the day. I didn't want to deal with being so nervous anymore.

 

[JLD]

I've dealt with anxiety much more than depression in my life but as I said in the OP, depression has plagued me as well. It's really an odd mix of anxiety and depression. For me, depression always follows a long bout of anxiety. I just get to a place where things seem impossible to change and that is when the depression creeps in. It usually happens when severe anxiety lasts more than a couple of months.

 

[MainerMikeBrown]

Nowadays, I don't get depressed much (other than the occasional blues, which of course is normal), in part, because I have overcome my issues with excessive anxieties.

 

[suzzeeb]

I think that's what I'm dealing with right now. After months of being in an anxious state because of relatively minor medical issues - Thousands of PVCs a day that were so stressful to me I decided to have an ablation in July, which stressed me out even further, and I started to feel like I was heading in a bad place off and on. Then, I needed to have 2 wisdom teeth removed, and I totally stressed about that too, which I know is silly. It's such a minor thing, but I think I was already so over the top from the ablation that it did me in. That was a week ago. That's just what I think happened. Maybe I would have spiraled down anyway, but for me, that's a lot of stress. So since a few weeks before my wisdom tooth removal I started feeling the signs of what I think is depression. I had this one other time in my life about 15 years ago, and I've been afraid of it returning ever since. It lasted quite a while. I barely slept, had no appetite, constantly shaky and felt sick all the time. So it was like severe anxiety but I couldn't ever calm down, and now I feel similar. I am on clonazepam now for the past few years for sleep as needed (a few times a week), but now I am unable to sleep without it because of my severe anxiety. My doctor started me on Prozac and I think I feel even worse on it, and I'm only on 10 mg a day. He thinks it's all in my head but I know I feel worse when I take antidepressants. Anyway, I hope it passes soon. I'm tired of feeling so bad and hoping for a few days of feeling well.

 

[Joshua1]

That happens to me with mental health drugs, its hard to let them go, but over time i take less dosages.

 

[PRguru_cfj]

They are inter linked. When I get anxious I get angry then depressed then apathetic then ending with me trying to forget about it. I b b have anxiety issues ever since I was a kid. Now as an adult its turned up to 11 and It makes me suicidal, depressed, and unmotivated .

 

[Cuchculan]

Maybe people feel down when their anxiety stop them from been able to do things. Fix the anxiety and they will no longer feel down. Because they can do things again.