Anxiety & Depression

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Book Recommendations:

“The Art of Uncertainty” by Dennis Merritt Jones

“Hyperbole and a Half” by Allie Brosh

“Unf*** Your Brain” by Faith G. Harper

“Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression” by James Gordon

“The Mindful Way Through Depression” by Williams, Teasdale, Segal,and Kabat-Zinn

“Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things” by Jenny Lawson

Two sides of the same coin. One without the other. One leading to the other. medications universally used to treat both. more and more common and yet still difficult to experience.

For anyone who has experienced anxiety and/or depression or who has known someone who has, you know well how real the struggle can be. Panic attacks. Suicidal thoughts. From the heights of extreme nail bitting moments of feeling to the lows of lacking all motivation to care for those nails, both anxiety and depression are not easy to experience. In anxiety, one’s system is revved and won’t shut down, not to sleep, not to eat. In depression, one’s system crawls at a snail’s pace in a place void of colour and vibrancy.

Symptoms are many and varied. Anxiety is as physical as it is emotional with heart palpitations, tingles, nausea, dizziness, shakiness, trembling, weakness, racing thoughts, intrusive thoughts, endless worrying, restlessness, sleeplessness, agitation. Depression can include loss of motivation and/or interest, difficulty concentrating or remembering things, sadness, suicidality, increased sensitivity and/or crying, irritability, fatigue, low energy, insonmia.

The good news is: there is help and treatment for both.