Quiz..is This Depression Or Anxiety?

Q: If I knew for sure it was anxiety, I'd probably take a xanax, but if it is definately depression I don't want to make it worse by taking xanax.

A:I would suggest you try a Xanax one night and see what happens. At the absolute worst, if it is depression and the Xanax worsens it, you will have one night of a little more depression. If it is anxiety, the Xanax should ease it and you'll know. Depression is a hard thing to pin down. I realize that I've been depressed for a long time and didn't know it, until it cleared and I saw how I was and how I'd been. Depression is more than just a sadness. It's a sadness that doesn't seem to have any purpose, reason or solution. In fact, because depression for me is also a lack of motivation, it's a sadness that prevents activities that may be a solution, like getting out and having some fun. Depression, again to me, eliminates the desire to acheive. Even to the point of eliminating the desire to fix the depression. It's an emptiness. A hollow spot that no light enters. When you speak of the tension in your neck and shoulders that says to me anxiety. I experience this often (usually while driving). Even half of a Xanax could help relieve some of the tension and help with any underlying anxiety. Is your lexapro at a normal dosage for this med? this sounds like anxiety to me. It's almost like an anticipation anxiety. You tend to panic/worry over the fact that you MAY have a bad night. I do this often myself and it goes right to my neck and shoulders! I would definitely take a Xanax and see if it helps. for me depression and anxiety are a combo. i feel both at the same time. when i feel anxious i feel depressed. when i feel depressed i feel anxious. I can't tell either. I stopped trying to figure out which parts of my symptoms are anxiety and which are depression. I just know when I don't feel right and can describe how I feel and what I'm doing, but I don't know for sure if something is anxiety or depression caused. It would make more sense to guess that what you are feeling is anxiety but again, I don't know for sure because it seems to me, for me at least, that I can feel both at the same time sometimes and at other times it feels like one comes first and then leads to the other - with depression being first for me. As I said I just know when I'm feeling anxious but to say that it is all anxiety and not depression, I just don't know.

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