If youve made progress maybe you can answer this....

[pinkputter]

I've gone through so many stages of overcoming SA/generalized anxiety...and even though during that time, I felt a little bit of depression, I never really pictured that once I recovered from anxiety, I would have depression and only depression.

The good thing is that i HAVE overcome the anxiety part of it. Which is so great and I am very proud of that progress. It took a lot of patience, and persistence, but it IS possible. I actually did this Biofeedback machine, that my therapist recomended i do, and it said I had hardly any anxiety at all. (It measures your ability to relax and monitors body responses).

But I am just so depressed now. In a book I read it said that some people do have existing depression after they overcome their anxiety. But it said that underlying depression could be caused from something else.

I really feel like its just an extension of depression from when I was living such a limited life from my anxiety.

Has any one else felt this way? Or has some one already been through this?
If you have, do you just deal with depression the same way you do with anxiety? thinking positively, etc.

Sorry about all the questions, just answer the ones you can!

 

[Scottish_Player]

I kind of understand where your coming from.

I have gotten over SA so much in the past year but i do still have days of depression, days where it feels like all the effort i have put in has gone to waste. This normaly happens to me when somthing happens that cause my anxiety to come back with force, when the anxiety comes or an anxious situation occurs that i cannot handle then i feel the depression come for a few days after, if that makes sense.

I think its kinda normal to feel down/depressed sometimes, as we need the down days to compare with the other days to show how good the other days are.

As for dealing with it, i try and get up and do stuff and as hard as it is at the time it sure does speed up the recovery, and also like you said thinking positvly is a great help

Not sure if i have really answered your question :S

 

[pinkputter]

hey Scottishplayer!

Well yeah I related to that kind of depression to when my anxiety was bad. Like I had depression but my anxiety was still in full swing so the main problem was just anxiety.

Now that my anxiety has dispated completely, (its been about 2 months of being completely free of obsessive thoughts or physical symptoms! very happy about it)....but the problem is I feel completely depressed....how some people are just depressed, not necessarily having to have anxiety to feel this depressed way.

I think there are different stages in recovery, and I do feel this depression is anxiety-related....but I just don't know how to overcome it. Or if its "normal" in anxiety disorders....

There HAS to be somebody thats been throuh this on here...people that are on this site that said theyve overcome SA....

Thanks Scottish player...I definitely related, but mines in a different stage I think. I appreciated what you had to say!!!