Comments on: Depression + anxiety = anxious misery

By: How Do You Handle Being Sad Or Depressed In Front Of Your Kids? | Outlaw Mama

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:38:51 +0000

[...] I try not to diagnose myself with depression on Chicago’s trademark gray winter days. Those days lend themselves to morose reflection and permeate everything with a sense of gloom and doom. When the cloud cover is low and the sun is just something that people over in California get to experience, I hunker down into survival mode. Image credit: http://saynotostigma.com/2011/10/depression-anxiety-anxious-misery/ [...]

By: quizilla.Teennick.com

quizilla.Teennick.com — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:44:35 +0000

Surwit shows that: “stress management techniques, when added to standard care, helped reduce glucose levels”.
Symptoms of depression can affect the mind and body, and drastically
impact a person’s life. In cases of mild depression medicines show a good
recovery in the patient.

By: Rainys Andrew Blekaitis

Rainys Andrew Blekaitis — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:18:02 +0000

I didn’t read all of your article because I know its truth all too well. Depression and anxiety accompany each other, and if I kept score, it seems that depression occurs first, the primary burglar, and then the opportunist burglar, anxiety, joins once the door to my house has already been kicked in. I’ve been told that my anxiety is caused by an overactive amygdala, as if its a dysfunction unto itself, separate and distinct. When my brain constantly tells me how bad I am, how bad my past, present, all life is, then my amygdala pulls the fire alarm. Depression and anxiety are complementary. Most fascinating is what I discovered on the Charlie Rose series The Brain during a special recorded for me about depression. In addition to hearing that severely depressed people suffer from anxiety, I learned that these people also suffer from sleep problems. Until that show I never made the connection. I rarely sleep well. Though there’s no pattern associating insomnia with depression/anxiety, the last thing I need is to toss and turn all night in the same acid bath I endured all day when I’m suffering. I need help and I don’t know where to turn to because it’s been a life long boxing match for me. Into the late rounds depression is as vital as it ever was, but I’m growing too old for the fight and my arms are getting too heavy to lift. I apologize for the mixed metaphors, but it’s the best way to describe something that words fail to convey. Thank you.

By: SJ McKinley

SJ McKinley — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:42:08 +0000

I like your point of view, Dr. Allen, and agree many people today are living in “anxious misery.” I am curious as to your opinion on this matter: Do people who have lived decades of anxious misery have any hope of these mechanisms wearing down by older ages or is it likely to worsen the longer it goes on? That may be too general a question, but I hope you can speak to the heart of it. Suzanne