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[surfergirl10]

I have just been diagnosed with Depression/anxiety/phobia. I am having severe anxiety issues. I use .5 mg of Ativan for on an needed basis. Here is my question? How does Anxiety and Dperession work together? I don't get it? Also, This year I am having bouts of crying fits? I feel sad. I have never felt this way. Yes, I am now discovering my repressed memories are coming out too. It feels like my brain is detoxing. Is it normal to feel cloudiness without drugs, during a cycle of depression? I wll soon go into a psychiatrist for an evaluation. They may have me use an antidepressant to deal temprarily but this scares me.  I am worried about withdrawals etc.  Plus, 9 years ago I took some effexor and had like how describe-an LSD type of trip (no I haven't had LSD either)...Anytips? I may be out of town for a bit..so I will check later on.

[remar]

i also have suffured with anxiety and depression for thirty years. my daughter has the same problem. we lean on each other for support and can't understand how some of us have both anxiety and depression at the same time. i've found that there are few meds that treat both symptoms. we both have to take two meds. i agree with everything hensley258 said, if effexor made you feel weird then try something else. i took it for five years and hated the way it made me feel at times but it's one of the drugs that helps both symptoms so i stayed on it for that reason. have you tried xanax on an as needed basis? it sounds like the ativan is'nt helping much. also try deep breathing in the morning when your feeling anxious, it helps me sometimes. remar

[surfergirl10]

I am writing everything down and hav anxious feelings in the AM everymorning. It just comes on and it is irritating. It used to be my motivating signal...now it is just making me worry and worry. I am going to also post another question that may pertain more to women, but if any of you guys know anything about the subject please HELP!!

[jeffwoods]

When your happy, you're not anxious....this is a good example of how depression and anxiety work together

[Hensley258]

I wish I could explain exactly how Depression and Anxiety work together, but unfortunatly that's a question that even modern science has not solved the puzzle to.

The human brain is so infinitly complex that even the most brilliant doctors do not fully understand much of it.

It is a fact that depression and anxiety are linked together in many cases. We just don't exactly now how or why. You will find that one of the most frustrating aspects of Clinical depression or any mental health problem, is that much of it's cause and effect is not fully known.

For example, my best friend spent his entire childhood being beat and abused by his alcoholic father and he is ok. He has not suffered any severe or lasting anxiety as a result of this horrible childhood. On the other hand I grew up in a very stable and loving family and have never suffered even a moment of trama in my life, yet I have suffered from severe depression and anxiety for all my adult life. So severe that I have to take combinations of Antidepressant medications just to function at a normal level.

It really boggels the mind and just goes to show how complex or brains really are.

Regarding your question about, "will depression make you feel cloudy?" Yes, absolutly it can. At my worst my depressive and anxiety symptoms were so severe, that I had even convinced myself that I was being poison or was going insane or something. That how weird I felt. My consentration level was so wasted that I swear I could not even read a childs book. It was kind of like living in some altered world where everything felt cloudy and disconnected. My body was racked with fear so bad that I would lay in bed and literally tremble for days without eating or even getting up. If there is a Hell, then this experience was very close to it.

Now, if Effexor made you feel spacy or weird, well then it just may not be the right medication for you. The good news about this disease is that we have a lot of wepons to fight it with. You just do your best to hold on to hope while activly seeking help. SEEKING HELP, that is key. You MUST be presistant about finding professional help and sticking to the treatment. I like the idea that your going to see a specialist like a Board Cerified Psychiatrist. They have the training and experience to properly treat this cronic condition. They are on a whole different level in terms of understanding this illness.

[wickedwanderer]

I think meds are very helpful when given under the appropriate circumstances.  As far as anxiety and depression working together...I know with depression, I worry excessively, which in turn, makes me have panic attacks (anxiety).  They are linked...

I think it's best to start with the more normal meds...lamictal, celexa, ect rather than jumping to the more potent cymbalta and effexor.  See what your doctor says when you go in for the appt.  

[el_dave]

Be really careful about what you believe. They tried to make me into a basket case all dependent on drugs and whatnot, and it turns out that apparently all I really needed was to get next to my wife.  I mean, they had me all messed up with PTSD, antisocial, psycho, insomniac, some others I can't remember.  Before they get you dependent on one type of pill or another, please be sure there aren't some "issues" you could fix that would do more good without addicting you to anything.