Dealing With Depression Now

Dealing with depression and anxiety is very common as they frequently go hand-in-hand. There can be many reasons why someone would have both depression and anxiety.

Here, I’d like to look at dealing with depression and anxiety resulting from the anxiety state.

So what do I mean by the anxiety state?

This is when someone has chronic anxiety, which is anxiety experienced over a period of time. They have it a on a daily basis for most of the day, as opposed to having anxiety occasionally in a specific circumstance, such as a phobia. When someone suffers anxiety continually, they are unceasingly tense, they are constantly releasing adrenaline into their body and they hold their body very tightly. When someone does this, it is incredibly tiring – in fact, it’s exhausting. Day after day of living in this state of anxiety leads to fatigue and exhaustion and can actually lead to adrenal fatigue as well.

It is at this point of exhaustion that someone is very, very likely to also develop depression. They feel as if they can’t fight the anxiety any more – although, in fact, fighting it is not a good thing to do – so they want to give up. It is when a person is tired and without motivation, that the sense of hopelessness and helplessness can descend and they can feel there is no way out. At this point, depression becomes a real problem because obviously the anxiety is still there and it is very, very important that the individual has the motivation to deal with the anxiety. Depression can take away the very much needed motivation to recover.

The way to recover from this is this to relax the body through eating the right foods and the right supplements, to rest and to keep occupied, but not to overdo it. It is important to keep occupied, to keep the mind off worries and on something else, but not to be doing it in a rushed state. Gentle occupation without overdoing it can help a tired, exhausted mind to recover. Always remember that depression resulting from exhaustion will pass if you rest and if you can stop yourself from becoming overwhelmed by it.

Dealing with depression and anxiety: The second aspect of depression resulting from the anxiety state is not necessarily because of exhaustion, it is because the individual is in an overly sensitive state. If the person has had depression in the past, it’s easier for them to descend back into it – they can be very susceptible to think ‘Oh, I’m going to go back into depression.’ They have anxious thoughts and because of these thoughts, they become depressed again. Even if they’ve not had depression in the past, because they’re highly sensitised, they can easily descend into a state of hopelessness about the future because of how they’re feeling in the present.

The way to recover from this is that when someone has these thoughts, is for the person to realise that the thoughts are not real, they’re a result of being overly sensitised. They’re just linked to anxiety and they’re really being tricked by them. If the person does not get bothered by the thoughts and learns to accept them, the thoughts will pass and the depression will pass with it.

If you understand these two types of depression resulting from the anxiety state, dealing with depression and anxiety can be straight-forward and not as daunting and overwhelming as it appears.