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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Tag: anxiety

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • This is the other question I get asked a lot, obviously. As with the physical side of anxiety, I’m sure we all experience it differently. My anxiety is usually the literal non-stop worrying about events that, after 51 years, still haven’t happened. It can be a single issue or a dozen issues. They just loop…

  • I get asked this one a lot. I imagine how anxiety feels is different from person to person, but there are likely a lot of similarities. Physically I’m anxious most of the time. From the moment I wake up until the moment I fall asleep. It manifests in several different ways. Stomach – I’d say…

  • 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…