Are Depression and Anxiety linked
Are Depression and Anxiety linked
Yes, anxiety, depression and insomnia are all part of the same illness.
It can also effect our skin, diet, and all other aspects of life that we don't think about, it is all linked to our brains, our nervous systems and our way of thinking.
Anxiety is a high and depression is a low, insomnia is a lack of sleep due to what is going on in our lives.
We all suffer what we call stress, but the levels that we suffer from depends on how we cope with it.
There is no given time for anxiety or depression to start effecting people's lives, it can become a problem immediately, it can also be a slow build up of what is going on in our lives.
We have all received bad news and information in our lives, and because of that news or information our lives may be effected depending on how we process it in our brains.
When we are given news or information in our lives, we analyze it, and how we make our own interpretation from it determines what our responses may be.
While these things are going on in our lives, our brains are still analyzing what we call the normal things in life such as our routines, our work, our socialising, our food, relationships, friends and all the other things that make us human.
Our brains have a lot to cope with throughout life, but when our brains become overloaded and our thought processes become inhibited with what's going on in our lives, it can be hard to cope with it all.
Anxiety, depression and insomnia can come in varying degrees, it can be low, moderate, high and extremely high.
Each and every person is different in the way that they handle and process the information that they receive, some people may analyze it deep in their brains, and this will determine what their reactions are going to be.
There are no right and wrong ways, it's the way that the individual handles it that determines what their responses or reactions are going to be.
Some people get information - and this can be anything. The way that they handle it can depend on the way that they were brought up, the way they were taught, their own beliefs, their moral way of thinking and habits that they have acquired throughout their lives.
This determines how they process this information in their brains.
We all process information in our own way because we all think differently.
We can think alike, but no two people think the exactly the same.
Some people may think it over a number of times in their brain and they may come back to it depending what that information is.
The longer we think about things and the longer we hold onto it will decide if we have anxiety, depression or insomnia.
We have a need to process and analyze our way through life, but how we do this will determine how relaxed or how anxious we are about this information.
With anxiety, a person may well be on a high and excitable, they may have become over enthusiastic about something that is going on in their lives and in their brains.
They may go over it again and again and again in their way of thinking.
Depression can make people think that everything is black and there is no hope for them because the problem that they are suffering from is so deep, again this is in their way of thinking.
As time moves on they can go into anxiety or depression which can effect their lives.
What they were excited about may become depression because of their thought processes and the inability to switch off their own thought processes in their brain.
The way the thought processes are handled by the person suffering the illnesses will determine how long they have anxiety, depression, insomnia and other related illnesses such as skin complaints and diet.
It is a way thinking that causes these illnesses, and some people can have short spells of the illness while other people have it for a long time leading to years.
Anxiety, depression and insomnia does effect people's lives, and because of it they find it hard to be able to do the things in life that most relaxed people take for granted.
We can improve our ability to do things in life when we understand what is going on and how we can control it.
There are no tricks in being able to control how we think, and once we learn how to take control of our own brains and our way of thinking our mental health will improve.
Are Depression and Anxiety linked written by Andrew Murphy 17 February 2008
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