Anxiety Depression Symptom

An anxiety depression symptom, such as overwhelming worry and fear, obsessive thoughts, panicky feelings, difficulty sleeping, palpitations or sweaty hands can perpetuate the anxiety cycle.

The more you experience these problems, the more you’re likely to in the future.

It’s normal to feel sad, depressed or anxious in response to a negative life event.

These include divorce, bereavement, redundancy, financial problems, relationship problems… but when the fear and worry are constant; when your symptoms just won’t go away, and you can’t function normally any more…
then you’ve got a bigger problem.

Anxiety and depression seem to go hand-in-hand.

It’s very rare to have one and not the other. In addition, there can be a third problem involved. That is bipolar disorder, which can mimic anxiety depression symptom.

There is a difference, however, between bipolar symptoms and anxiety depression symptom.

The flight/flight response gets triggered by an invisible enemy. And because you don’t know where or what the danger is, you don’t know how to respond. Should you be fighting it or running away from it? How can you avoid the danger if you don’t know where it is?

The world seems a terribly dangerous place and there’s nothing you can seem to do about it.

The Therapeutic Paradox

Part of the job of the unconscious is to protect you from danger. One way it does this very effectively is by automatically kicking in the fight/flight system to get you to move out of harm’s way.

However, the paradox is that the unconscious can become over-vigilant, so that perfectly innocent events can appear threatening, causing you even more problems.

How does the unconscious decide what’s dangerous?

The answer to this question is: your automatic and unconscious thoughts.

Click here to read about a fascinating experiment on a roller coaster. The more you take action in response to an over-vigilant unconscious, the more you validate it, the quicker it will warn you and the more it will find to warn you about next time.

Before long you end up with a fully-blown Social Anxiety Disorder