Can anxiety cause me to feel depressed?
Anonymous
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Jul 2, 2015
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In my own experience, yes it can. Depression causes anxiety and anxiety causes depression. It's unfair but that's how it works. Anxiety can make you feel very small and sometimes (in my case) you feel so pathetic for being that way that it makes you feel depressed
summersunset02
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Jul 3, 2015
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Yes! Many times, you start feeling like you can't even do the tiniest thing without freaking out, causing you to feel like you're worthless. This can lead you to feel depressed.
Anonymous
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Jul 3, 2015
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I've found that anxiety and depression go hand-in-hand, but this isn't always the case. To me, the fact that I can't carry on neurotypically sort of adds to my feelings of helplessness and "you'll never do anything right", though I'm sure the original depression stemmed from something else, not anxiety itself.
VictoriousVision20
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Jul 3, 2015
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In my experience it can take part in depression. The anxiety cripples you and then you feel lonely making it easier for depression to take hold. I have felt at odds socially with my anxiety before and has made me think "what is wrong with me?" and "Why can't I just say hi?" Those thoughts made me feel depressed if I let them fester instead of working through them and changing my attitude.
Tiger2279
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Jul 5, 2015
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YES and vice versa. Both Anxiety can cause depression and Depression can cause anxiety. It all depends on the severity of coarse but there is a big correlation between the two.
Anonymous
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Jul 5, 2015
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Yes, and depression can cause anxiety. Even though they are two whole different things, they often go hand in hand with eachother. Try to face them as different things and take it step by step.
PondIsle
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Jul 5, 2015
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It absolutely can, and I speak from experience. Anxiety makes it difficult to ever feel truly relaxed, and that constant feeling of being "on edge" can wear you out, use up all your brain's resources, leaving you feeling depressed...
peachysunny
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Jul 5, 2015
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yes it can because it can cause you to feel like you are trapped in a cycle of being scared and getting sad because you are scared ect.....
Marti333
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Jul 8, 2015
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Yes it can . It ´s normal that you feel depressed or frustrated when you ´re dealing with anxiety...
thereishope6097
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Jul 9, 2015
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Absolutely! When I was really struggling at the peak of my OCD, it felt like a lot of work and energy to just be awake and live, so I would love to sleep. (Can't be anxious while sleeping right?) But sleeping a lot only perpetuates the cycle of isolation (which is really bad for depression) and staying in our own (difficult) world.
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