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Anxiety and Depression

             Anxiety and Depression are cruel diseases that can affect anyone. It is very easy, once the symptoms begin, for a person to slide down the black hole where symptoms spiral and feed of each other, increasing in severity. Many people who develop depression have a history of an anxiety disorder earlier in life. There is no evidence one disorder causes the other , but there is clear evidence that many people suffer from both disorder.

Depression is not simple - it’s more than being ‘sad’

             I’ve been suffering from depression for many years and depression has a way of replacing your confidence with pure anxiety and self hatred. The scariest thing i found about suffering from a mental illness is the effect it has on every aspect of your life; it’s not just what’s inside your head. For me, suffering from depression became debilitating as I couldn’t find happiness in the little things i used to enjoy doing. More often than not, depression would cause me to sit in my room and cry, usually for no reason at all.

             To describe what living with depression and anxiety is like to anyone who doesn’t understand or hasn’t experienced it before is to imagine a weight pulling your body down, so heavy that every day you have to summon up the streghth to push against it and to lighten the impact. And I wanted the people I care for and confided in to open their hearts and minds to understand that depression isn’t a choice. I didn’t want to be depressed-nobody want to be depressed.