Anxiety Depression

It is easy to feel anxious when someone is already distressed. However, both have their own meanings that could alter one's perception on his actual state. So before you go thinking that you have symptoms of anxiety disorder, we suggest that you check first on some information that will enlighten you on how psychologically healthy you are.

Anxiety and depression are far from the sporadic blues that we regularly. Most of the time, both of these psychological disorders take over the entirety of the person, thus affecting his emotional stability, bodily functions, thoughts and behaviors. While there may be some minor resemblance with the nature of anxiety and depression, it must still be noted that these are very distinct psychological disorders that are determined through their symptoms, development of other disorders and root causes. In this article, we will try to help you see the difference between depression and anxiety. This way, you could asses yourself whether you are feeling a little anxious or a little depressed.

The hallmark of depression is deep sadness with unrelenting pain. This of course is very different from the garden-variety type that we can all be subjected to sometimes. In fact, people who have depression feel no life in them. The things and activities that used to be very pleasurable, rewarding and enjoyable will normally become very flat and very unsatisfying. This, by the way, is a symptoms called anhedonia. This occurs when trials to please the self through doing some enjoyable activities elicit no emotional reactions.

Also, depression seems to be a long, steep fall down towards the center of all negative feelings. People suffering from depression usually find it hard to uncover themselves from the dirt they have rolled themselves with during their fall.

Behavioral and physiological symptoms of depression are sudden changes in sleep, appetite and activity levels. Depending on the patient, he may either loose appetite or eat more. The same goes through with sleeping and other bodily activities.

Depression could develop into bipolar disorder or unipolar disorder. The main difference between these two is the absence and presence of mania which is typical with bipolar disorder.

People suffering form anxiety and its derivatives, meaning the disorders that may develop through initial anxiety attacks, may experience a host of symptoms. These include psycho-physiological symptoms combined with emotional changes that might lead the patient towards isolation, compulsions and many other irrational behaviors. Physically, a person in a non-normal state of anxiety feels shakiness, drying of the mouth, muscle aches and racing or pounding heart. Emotionally, it can make someone feel unnecessary apprehension, fear, worry and grief. And interpersonally, the patient may feel the unrelenting urge to isolate himself as this satisfies his need for comfort a rescue. But, symptoms vary depending on the type of anxiety disorder experienced.

At its worst, anxiety could keep someone from going to places he used to go or from doing the very things he used to enjoy. Imagine what its like to feel fearful of attending the first day of classes or extremely but irrationally worried of the coming job interview. But at its best, anxiety in some instances could help relieve the tension one feels when being attacked with irrational thoughts. But when taken from its worst standpoint, anxiety could mean the metaphorical death of the person. He may find himself extremely obsessed with certain activities to the extent that he will have to perform certain rituals that would eat most of his time. Or he may find himself physically dying from imagined sense of fear.

Anxiety, when aggravated, could lead to disorders like Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior, Panic Disorders and specific phobias such as alektorophobia or fear of chicken, claustrophobia or fear of closed-in space and ablutophobia or fear of being washed or washing oneself. All these could have rooted from developmental causes, brain chemistry, genetical predispositions and environmental factors.

Now, despite of the typical knowledge that anxiety and depression are one and the same, you may now arrive at the conclusion that these are two very different phenomenons occurring in the human body and in his brains. Thus, if you think that your attacks of blues are no longer normal, you may seek professional intervention to analyze whether you may be having depression or anxiety.

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