people with anxiety and depression

Follow me on my journey as an anxious and depressed human being. I'm just a regular dude in his 50's, married with kids and a job I love. I am not a medical professional, so take me with a grain of salt. My goal is to find therapy in sharing my stories. My hope is that you find comfort in not being alone..

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Category: depression

  • how does your depression feel?

    That’s how my depression feels. Dark, lonely, isolated, uncontrollable sobbing. It’s probably different for different people. But my depression? My depression sucks. Like real bad. My therapist calls it major depressive disorder or MDD for fun. Side note, I just internally rapped OPP to that. Anyways back to more me. As mentioned in other posts,…

  • how did you catch your anxiety/depression?

    What causes anxiety and depression? Man, I wish I knew so I could help others avoid it. I really do. Truth is, I don’t know how I caught it. I’m not even sure it’s catchable. Maybe it was my alcoholic father. Maybe it was his premature death. Maybe it was the time some kids beat…

  • why am I even here?

    It’s sad to realize the number of times I’ve asked myself that question. The number of times I’ve not wanted to be alive. This is the hardest part to explain about my lifelong anxiety and relatively new depression (because having anxiety wasn’t enough for this overachiever). I’m not suicidal, it’s just that sometimes I don’t…

  • wait, why are you telling us all this?

    I’ve been an open book about my anxiety issues for many years now. I understand how horrible it can be. I get it, I live it. I mention on my homepage about my diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD) over the past year. I’ve never known a sadness more powerful than my depression causes. It’s…

  • have you ever hit rock bottom?

    So many times. Picking which episode was bottom is tough. With my depression, for example, each episode is the saddest day of my life. “how can each one be sadder than the previous?” Hell if I know, they just are. With anxiety though, picking bottom is easy. Last summer I was driving with my mom…