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: mental health

  • 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…

  • why can’t you just stop thinking about it?

    As the old saying goes, if I had a dollar for the number of times I’ve heard this one I’d be rich. I can’t just stop thinking about it. I just can’t. Yes I know how ludicrous that sounds. I’m educated. I have an Electrical Engineering degree. Yet I can’t even control what my own…

  • do you have social anxiety?

    Should have added a “too?” to the end of that one bud. Of course I do. I don’t single thread this shit. I multithread it like a boss. I’m an advanced over achiever of negative thought processing. Honestly, my social anxiety might be the most frustrating of all the anxieties I have. Let’s say I…

  • traveling with anxiety

    Sucks. It just does. Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. I love to travel. I love going places I’ve never been, either alone or with my wife and kids sprinkled in. Family trips are fun too. Some of my favorite memories are from my travels. “ok so where’s the problem?” The problem is I…

  • 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…