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Depression
Depression.
Anxiety and depression are often thrown together as one and the
same thing, but this is grossly inaccurate. While they may share
some symptoms, the manifestation of these separate disorders are
very different.
Clinical depression is a diagnosable illness, rather than a set
of symptoms alone, and can be attributed to a chemical imbalance in
the brain alongside environmental circumstances. Anxiety can give a
person ‘nervous energy’, which can grow into hyper-sensitive
disorders such as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or Social Phobia.
Depression saps the sufferer of their strength, drive and will
power leaving them, in extreme cases, almost cataleptic, unable to
function normally and without the resources they need in order to
beat the emotional turmoil destroying them.
It is Disassociation that connects anxiety and depression
together. The feeling that for one reason or another you are not
really here, or that you are somehow just ‘observing’
the world, without necessarily participating.
Clinical Depression is a disorder too commonly ‘self-diagnosed’
by people trying to excuse their behaviour or just explain to
themselves why things aren’t going the way they planned in their
lives. The problem with that, is that depression is a self
perpetuating issue. If you tell yourself you are depressed, then
you are likely to become depressed even if you weren’t
really depressed in the first place!
Both anxiety and depression can come into people lives without
provocation, and can have serious implications. Not least of these
being substance abuse / misuse issues. Self medicating is much more
dangerous than self diagnosing. Much more.
The good news is that Depression can be beaten. If recognised
and tackled early enough it need not be the all encompassing beast
that it can. The fact that you are reading this, now, means it
is still early enough.
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