Blogpost 3: Anxiety vs. Depression

Anxiety and depression have some similar symptoms and can often cause one another. There are ways to tell which one a person suffers from by looking at all the symptoms that are present. In addition, the causes are similar, but genetics plays a role in the chance of getting one or the other. All these things should be taken into account when treatment is sought. A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome that is anxiety and depression is a severe despondency and dejection, accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy. Anxiety and depression can be affect in any age.

 

  
According to Psych Central by Harold Cohen entitled Depression versus Anxiety. In this article that I have read it talks about  how anxiety differentiate to depression and what are the common of them. It says also how was the the feeling of being depressed and of being anxious.

"Many people mistakenly believe that most depressed people have no energy. But that is not always the case, as some people with depression often experience one form or another of anxiety" 

In my experience I am more in anxiety. Every time that I feel fears or tensions and  pains I think I am anxious not depressed because depression means to me hopeless or sad and for me depression is only a result of anxiety. In this article I understand what is the difference of anxiety and depression. Being anxious or depressed are big and hard challenge but both can be eliminate.


In the article that I read entitled Anxiety and Depression together by David Barlow in Psychology Today. It stated that anxiety and depression had similarities and have differences also. It stated also that a depression is like pushing your feelings down and that the result of person to be sad or hopeless.


"Anxiety is a kind of looking to the future, seeing dangerous things that might happen in the next hour, day or weeks. Depression is all that with the addition of 'I really don't think I'm going to be able to cope with this, maybe I'll just give up.' It's shutdown marked by mental, cognitive or behavioral slowing."

In everyday life many of us what will happen in our life, it might be good or bad but in anxiety it always seeking for a negative way. Like when a student have a quiz on a certain subject the student always think that she or he will fail the test but the student have confidence to pass the test. In depression the student also think that she or he might fail the test and this situation the student have no self confidence in short she or he is hopeless. Based on my experience the anxiety and depression are mix to myself sometimes I have confidence to face my problems but their at times that I am to hopeless to face it. 

 

Two of the most common disorders in the world are anxiety and depression. Both also have their own sub-disorders. While they are technically different disorders, they also share a lot in common, and their similarities and relationship may affect your treatment. Anxiety creates a feeling of discomfort and often has a lot more energy. Depression, on the other hand, doesn't have that fear. Depression centers around the idea that life is already bad, with less hope about getting better.