Anxiety and Depression: What's the Difference?

Anxiety and depression may be confusing, especially if a person has both. These mental disorders can be co-morbid. Someone with depression can have anxiety symptoms, and vice versa. So, what's the difference between anxiety and depression?

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Script Writer: Michelle Gaston
Script Editor & VO: Lily Hu
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[Psychgo]

What time is it where you're from and what are you thinking about? Comment below =)

[kenny-nkdb]

The thing is, you don't wanna be sleep but you don't wanna be awake.
You don't want to eat, but you don't want to be hungry.
You don't want to be around people, but you don't want to be alone.
You don't want to do anything, but you don't want to do nothing.
What you really want to do is stop existing, but you can't do that without dying, and you don't really want to do that either..
You should know how precious you are.
Darling, even the stars would smile on a soul like yours. 💛

[aminthepm]

Depression is basically not giving a shit about anything.
Anxiety is caring to much about literally everything.

Put them together you have one hell of a mindset.

[ingridsara]

I have been depressed for a long time, but after taking shrooms few months ago, l feel much happier and highly motivated and my ADHD gone, lost a ton of anxiousness and had a few epiphanies about how I should live my life. I decided to buy an ounce for backup, but haven’t yet felt the need to take any more since then.

[ossen]

Depression: Sadness over the past
Anxiety: Worry over the future

[RealThomasHyldig]

*Anxiety* is characterised by persistent worry or fear
*Depression* tends to be characterised by low mood, feelings of hopelessness, low self-esteem, and in some cases, thoughts of self-harm or suicide.

[cassylk]

Anxiety : helplessness
Depression : hopelessness

[jchenot]

I can't think of one person who really wants to hear about my depression and anxiety. I hide it well.

[althepal]

I kinda feel like the music was too loud to concentrate

[pineappleboidraws]

As someone with GAD and MDD, here’s how it is for me:

1. My anxiety grows and grows, but my brain doesn’t have the want or desire to tell others.
2. Due to #1, it boils up and I break down in an anxiety attack, which leads to a long stage of depression. Typically it’s double the time crying.
3. I overthink a lot, and that can also go into depressive thoughts.
4. I feel like I can do everything, but then lose all that energy in an instant.
5. Mental slowing down.

That’s about it for now.

[iluvu]

Its funny howAll the time I thought I was growing up shy turns out I was growing up with anxiety

[Joeyblondewolf]

Aniexty: you're afraid to live.
Depression: you don't want to live.

[eliseheartless]

And when you have both, like me, then your life is a literal hell...

[blockofgrass]

My mom always says: "If you feel depressed, you live on the past, if you feel anxious, you live in the future." This saying has helped me a lot. Whenever I feel negatively, I try to think about the exact moment I'm living and stop worrying about mistakes I've made or I'm going to make.

I know this maybe doesn't help people with a bad mental illness, since I have only very slight depression and anxiety, but I hope it helps even a little <3

[nikkinixon]

“the need to go to the bathroom frequently”

me, in the bathroom: 😳

[bluecarrotshoe]

Anxiety : cares too much
Depression: don’t care at all

Both : ?¿????¿¿¿??

[undeadfaith]

Depression: I want to die,

Anxiety: But what if you do?

[ianmclaughlin]

"Anxiety and depression are related in the same way as are fear and grief. We fear a coming evil; we grieve over one that has occurred."

[freddonovan]

I can't find a source anywhere for any good psychedelics in my area, I suffer some pretty bad depression and i got a chance to try K and man it was a miracle substance, I felt free, the only high or euphoria was from the relief of my vices being released, that's exactly what it did

[darksteve]

For a second, I imagined Patrick Star reading the title.