Do you struggle with anxiety and depression?

[Christsdisciple15]

How does it affect your daily living? How does it affect your relationships? How old are you and how long has your struggle been?

Personally, I do. It is largely debilitating. Waking up each day is a hostage situation for me.

I know this is a common issue, that definitely increased during my lifetime. Feel free to share only what you are comfortable with sharing.

[ohsheeT]

Okay so I'm going to start this out by saying every word that you read here does not mean that I'm trying to tell you what to do how to do it or even if it works this is going to be strictly up to you for anxiety either we allow ourselves to get into positions that are either too fast too slow we can't breathe it's almost at the air changes around us


I think at one point in time everybody's depressed some just a different levels we get depressed because things are not happening for us or we miss out on things or we make the wrong choices are we just don't feel worthy it's like 5,000 pounds in your body and you just don't want to move it's hotter than hot you don't we don't even want to
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OK all the above make me have anxiety make me depressed in so many ways

So I'm the type of guy that my head is always been I'm always thinking about everything so when I feel anxiety when I feel depressed I don't have time for it I know everybody's different I'll turn on music I will eat something LOL I will drink some water and I will tell myself everything you feel right now is your choice there's nobody else inside of me you can make me feel anything except for me so you can either go with it or you can tell it to f off I don't have time for it we'll do it later take a rain check and I motivate I know that I'm the only person that can make myself smile if I feel down and out I'll start laughing just like right now I just started laughing just because I can because the opposite is to feel depressed angry more now beat up I don't have time for that I like being happy so I make myself laugh for a second and that makes me giggle and that little girl makes me even laugh harder and I move on one step in front of the other I changed my frame of mind and I just keep going forward like I said I'm not even trying to give you an answer here I'm just writing down words maybe you'll grasp a hold of then and put them in order the way you want to hear are the way you see it no matter what we do in life no matter how we feel in life it's only for a moment in time we carry on that moment as long as we possibly want to or we deny it all I can say is I hope something helped you here I don't know it kind of helped me a little bit I got to get my ass up and start moving LOL

[Leapfrog00]

I struggle with both. I have an acute anxiety disorder, a severe panic disorder, and social anxiety.

Acute anxiety causes you to want to stay away from people and situations. You may end up in your house for days. It may be difficult to show up for work. I lost a job once because I worked with a bunch of nitpickers who wrote me up every day I was there and put down my job performance and I was having panic attacks every time I went in.

A severe panic disorder is even worse. It means that you constantly have anxiety and fear. And the social anxiety, that kind of goes back the acute anxiety, except with fearing people and situations, it's just people.

I come from a history of abuse, abuse from parents, my narcissistic aunt, who pushed me down the steps and broke my foot last year. Then she kept pushing pills in my face and told me to kill myself.

The panic attacks are the worst though. My fingers and toes tingle and go numb, and then it spreads through my whole body, and eventually it paralyzes me. It even got to the point where I lost all my friends and barricaded myself inside. Doctors don't want to prescribe anxiety meds anymore because people abuse him, and it gets to the point, the only way you can leave the house is to take a pill.

I used to like being around people, but I can't stand them now. I have no use for most of them anyway. I hear that cognitive therapy helps people get past a lot of the obstacles from debilitating anxiety. When I live, they don't offer that kind of therapy. Hell, you can barely get therapy around here period!

The best thing for anxiety is loneliness and a good movie or television series to binge watch, and some popcorn with a nice cold beverage, and cutoff from the outside world!

[Agape93]

How does it affect your daily living?
I have to force myself to get shit done. I don't like being still for too long. I can't sleep most nights. Some days I feel like. blowing my head off. Etc.

How does it affect your relationships?
Honestly I don't know

How old are you and how long has your struggle been?
I'm 31 and it's been going most of my life but got significantly worse when I was 20.

[Beatrix7]

um yeah but the reasons for why there always has been

[DaveJord]

The only time I have ever struggled with anxiety and depression is when I dated someone with anxiety and depression issues. Let me tell you, it was traumatic for me and I basically avoid subjecting myself to emotional and mental abuse.

[RHK36]

Since I was a teen. It got easier when I got older due to trial and error of what can help curb those feelings. If you don't want get opioids then cannabis helps. Ultimately therapy, personal growth and striving to be an all around better person helps to stave off the bad moments I had in my youth. But yeah, cannabis helps 😂.

[CuriousMufuxka]

More like live with. No amount of drugs, alcohol, or whatever else fixes that. I know that I'm a strong person. I know that both will be around no matter. Keep going and work harder than especially depression works on you. I've personally used anxiety to my advantage not only for public speaking but also podcasts that I've done from time to time.

[dudeinohio]

58. Have had depression probably since my teens. 15 years ago, I finally started medication. It helps.

[Christsdisciple15]

I’m happy for you

[dudeinohio]

Thanks

[Nikki1989]

When I was a teenager I did, but with therapy and positive thinking I was able to pull myself out of it.

[MrShaun]

I have. At rare times, it's been beyond words. Most of the time, it's not a big deal.

[najekim]

I refuse to let stuff like that affect me. So it doesn't.

[Fireguy17]

not at all.
I guess I am lucky.

[Jersey2]

Fortunately, no.

[AimeeKyle]

No, not at all.

[LazerBean]

Nope.

[Kelly6]

High depression

[Anonymous]

No...