What’s the difference between anxiety and depression and how we get both?

I’m talking about lifelong struggles with each. How does one get GAD or depression?

Anxiety is an uneasy feeling that you get; it can include feeling nervous, rapid heartbeat, sweating, upset stomach and most commonly DREAD.

It is the body’s response to fear. When you are in a state of fear your body sends out signals to produce more adrelaline and epinephrine.

Anxiety is often thought of the Fight or Flight response.

Depression, when clinical, is an imbalance in your brains chemicals—-most often seratonin.

People quite often experience both depression and anxiety at the same time.

Both are caused by environment, hereditary and chemical imbalances. If you look into your family (grand-parents, cousins etc) you probably will find evidence of depression and anxiety. However, 40-50 years ago people people did not speak as openly as they do today about how they feel.

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