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InvisibleMoonshoe
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What is worse for you, anxiety or depression?
    #21987754 - 07/23/15 11:14 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Which emotion is a bigger problem in your life- depression or anxiety?

Are you more of a sad, depressed person or more of an anxious, fearful person?

If you could become immune to one of these two emotions which would it be?

For me its hard to say, it almost seems like they are both equally bad, but maybe overall I find anxiety even worse then depression.

How about you?


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: Moonshoe]
    #21987768 - 07/23/15 11:17 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

They both come together unfortunately but the depression I'd say is worse can always pop a box of valium for anxiety


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: Laughingcowwa]
    #21988060 - 07/24/15 12:45 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Anxiety makes me feel alive. Depression makes me feel dead.


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: Artnotwar]
    #21988087 - 07/24/15 12:54 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

My depression is far worse than my anxiety.


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: TNK] * 1
    #21988097 - 07/24/15 12:55 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Anxiety kills my drive to do anything. Depression just makes me emotionally cold and darkly humorous. Id way rather be depressed then anxiety riddled.


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: Moonshoe]
    #21988105 - 07/24/15 12:58 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Whichever one I'm facing at the moment is worse.

As long I'm not experience either, I feel like I can easily get through both. But once one of them sets in, things change.

Depression makes me not want to live life, anxiety makes me too afraid to do it. They're both kind of on equal playing fields.


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #21988118 - 07/24/15 01:00 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Bodhi of Ankou said:
Anxiety kills my drive to do anything. Depression just makes me emotionally cold and darkly humorous. Id way rather be depressed then anxiety riddled.




Interesting, my depression just keeps me from having the motivation to do anything, I just get the "why bothers" and do nothing, ultimatum feeling worse about the current situation.


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: Shroomslip]
    #21988119 - 07/24/15 01:01 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Anxiety is crippling but those long boring depressed nights are the most unbearable.


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: Hobozen]
    #21988166 - 07/24/15 01:10 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

When you're depressed you don't care enough about anything to get an anxiety about it. Fuck it. Why worry.


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: Astral Pain]
    #21988214 - 07/24/15 01:24 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

depression. for the most part anxiety at least pushes me to make a change to feel better, even though many times it comes back. depression is basically hopelessness which only snowballs and is much harder to make an effort


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: brokentv]
    #21988457 - 07/24/15 03:34 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Both are apart of my life.

Anxiety is less day-to-day and more in the form of debilitating panic attacks. Once that switch is flipped I pretty much have to ride out the panic attack until 5am when I finally collapse from exhaustion.

Depression I can power through, to some extent.


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: Moonshoe]
    #21988479 - 07/24/15 03:52 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I've had some of both, off and on, like everyone does.
For me, a full blown 'panic attack' type anxiety is the worst.
Feels like a really large, horrible kook shot of meth.

Well, not exactly but.:willynilly:



Thanks alot OP.


Your depressing thread just got me all anxious N shit... :supercrankey:

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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: vinsue]
    #21988501 - 07/24/15 04:19 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

For me, anxiety is a million times worse than depression. Chronic anxiety makes my life fucking unbearable. God bless valium, that shit is the only thing that helps even a tiny bit.


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: ChasingBliss]
    #21988515 - 07/24/15 04:37 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

never been depressed, so def anxiety


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: Bassfreak]
    #21988519 - 07/24/15 04:39 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I experience way more anxiety than depression.

I experience way less of either since I got serious about MXE though. No lie. I experience marked reduction of anxiety during at least 3 weeks after using MXE and much less throughout. In the first week after MXE use I';m usually a straight up hero. Not sociopathic or numb just SO POWERFUL OF SPIRIT.


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: TNK]
    #21988524 - 07/24/15 04:42 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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TheNatureKid said:
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Bodhi of Ankou said:
Anxiety kills my drive to do anything. Depression just makes me emotionally cold and darkly humorous. Id way rather be depressed then anxiety riddled.




Interesting, my depression just keeps me from having the motivation to do anything, I just get the "why bothers" and do nothing, ultimatum feeling worse about the current situation.




Its strange, when I get hit with a bout of depression the "fuck everything" is always the most prominent aspect of it but I lack the ability to ever completely give up on anything. I go through the motions almost mechanically when im super depressed. Its almost a more pure expression of who I am since im basically running on auto-pilot the entire time. Ive always found that im almost exponentially more funny when im in that state even though its not anything im aspiring to be when I am.


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #21988629 - 07/24/15 06:12 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

IS anyone doing the semicolon thing (google pic). It represents when an author chooses to extend the sentence rather than stop it. As mental illness people should keep going and tell there story rather than end it all. But its also a symbol of all mental illness. I draw it on my wrist that is above my sleeve so its almost always visible (with permo). Seems to make me feel a little better. Being my "club secret" but also if anyone realises its true meaning there like "yea alright" and not just get away from you wierd fuck up.



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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: kakashi68]
    #21988667 - 07/24/15 06:48 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Depression, by far.


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: BayerPhi]
    #21988728 - 07/24/15 07:20 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I haven't been depressed in years but my social anxiety can be pretty bad.


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Re: What is worse for you, anxiety or depression? [Re: ohcrapitsnico]
    #21988769 - 07/24/15 07:42 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

People always tell me I am probably depressed based on whatever brilliant observations and insights they have regarding me, but they also say I am easy going.

I've never really felt depressed, I consider myself more of a realist with some borderline masochistic tendencies, but my anxiety is intense sometimes.  At least I think it is anxiety.  It's funny because when I'm around other people I hold it together ok, I'm fidgety to the extreme but that's about it, the second I am alone I will make faces and jerk around like a lunatic because I feel so tense sometimes.

When I was addicted to downers I was highly functional when I was using, and I just didn't feel like that to this day I still have people who insist I was clean back then and am on drugs now that I am actually clean, because I seem "depressed".

Honestly both words piss me off when people insist that they are coherent diagnosis that can sum up someone's problems in life.  I get that this is very serious for some people, but hearing people other than me go into the minutia of their anxiety and depression makes me bored and depressed.  I've always felt it was more of an existential thing, I like the energy I get from anxiety alot of the time, and I also kinda wallow in misery.


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