Posted by schleprock on February 25, 2013, at 20:51:35
In reply to Re: Keatmine only med so far good for, posted by joe schmoe on February 25, 2013, at 19:30:55
> Hmm, this could explain why anxiety and depression so often seem to go hand in hand. If anxiety results in chronic stress, and chronic stress causes depression, then anxiety would cause depression.
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> I have never come across numbers regarding how many people have just anxiety, just depression, or both. My impression is that many (most?) people with one also have the other.I've been diagnosed with both anxiety and depression (first Pdoc referred to anxiety, second to depression- I usually just referred to this as "depression", though I knew that anxiety was involved in the times it broke through.) However, considering my condition over the past 9 mths, I think I only suffered from anxiety; my state over this recent time period feels different than what I suffered from before, and is consistent with symptoms of melancholic depression (though it seems to respond to benzos and possibly beta-blockers.) What definitely initiated this period for me was a severe panic attack, followed by a short period of anxiety, and then depression(?).
But if you really want to start at the beginning, we can go back to summer 2009 when I was being diagnosed by a so-called "psychiatrist" by the name of Dr. Ronald Rawitt who, in the span of a few minutes- as if following some kind of categorical diagnostic guidelines that were reflective of opinions that were highly prevalent in medical community, that since I was diagnosed with both anxiety and depression I must be bi-polar. He convinced me to give Lithium a try (starting I think 1200 or 1600mg on top of the 150mg of Nortriptyline I was already on.) That was when life as I knew it ended...
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