ImNotMyIllness
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Which Would You Get Rid of First?
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Dreamscape
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^ This. .
vj288
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The first thing I would want to get under control is depression, than attack my social problems. I tend to have obsessive thoughts and tendencies, but those are positive when I am feeling better, positive, and motivated as opposed to when I am depressed which leads to rumination. Nothing says I cannot address both issues at once though, and in fact it works out as one improves so does the other, so really I would get rid of both at the same time.
Opaline
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Yes, this.
My social anxiety makes everything 5 times more difficult than it really is. If it weren't for that, I don't think I'd be so depressed in the first place - so I'd be killing two birds with one stone.
If I have OCD, it's not severe. I can live with it.
I'm not really sure what came first, depression or avoidance/SA, but I think it was the SA. Then as the SA got worse and avoidance kicked in, there came the depression. So I feel that the avoidance is the most important thing to address, then there probably wouldn't be a reason for depression. However, depression cripples you, sapping your motivation to do anything, so I'd probably want to be on some kind of medication or doing at least a little bit to tackle the depression so that facing the avoidance/SA issues seem more realistic. So in other words, both at the same time. But if I could only treat one, it would definitely be the SA, because just treating depression would be futile, it would keep coming back if the SA were still there.
