My-son-the-psychologist says that anxiety and depression are always found together; it's just a matter of which one happens to be in ascendance. And people become depressed at being anxious all the time, and/or anxious because they're depressed all the time. (And if the two states alternate vigorously, you have a bipolar person.) Furthermore, anxiety and/or depression may actually be the underlying cause of many other dysfunctions; for example, a person who's anxious all the time is too distracted by their anxiety to pay attention to anything else for very long, and so gets diagnosed as having ADD.
Instead of asking yourself, "How do I feel?", you might find it easier to answer "What am I thinking about?".
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Date: 2009-03-01 12:48 pm (UTC)Instead of asking yourself, "How do I feel?", you might find it easier to answer "What am I thinking about?".