Posted by yxibow on March 10, 2007, at 13:32:53
In reply to Re: Larry Hoovers, Quintal, Yxibow, Blueberry???, posted by UgottaHaveHope on March 9, 2007, at 0:29:30
> Love to hear your opinion.
I'm not really sure what the statement means. Anxiety disorders fill the DSM with all sorts of differential diagnoses just as much as depression.
If you, like most people on here and we can debate and argue, but since I know for myself that in most cases when people go through years of various mental illnesses its biological and genetic. Certainly is for me anyhow.
So variation through lifetime is a factor, and I kinda have a pretty sh*tty variation at the moment that doesn't seem to be in my control really. OCD while nasty, was in my control eventually -- of course you have it for life but its in the background and pales in comparison to this Somatiform mess which has robbed me of 5 years of living in the real world. Anyhow..
I have had anxiety and depression concommitant for most periods of my life.
Sometimes the depression is primary (intrinsically genetic/biological), sometimes its secondary (this disorder is damn crappy so I have depression), sometimes its both, which is what it seems for the moment, MDD.I've also had and still have phobias and various foibles concommitant with dysthymia in college, which was much milder, but also concommitant with slight OCD/short attention span which made me have to read passages in books sometimes twice or more to remember what I was reading.
There always was the trouble that you could treat one but not the other at the same time especially with SSRIs, that some anxiety would inevitably come from the treatment for depression, or depression wasn't covered enough and anxiety at least was partially covered.
My OCD was part of the onset of puberty and the discovery that my sexuality was not the same as my peers, not any particular depression I can think of. I mean I tended to be a loner at the small high school I went to, but I had always been one. Would be nice to go back and have more self esteem and win 'em over again so to speak but I'm way past wanting to remember certain parts of adolescence.So the answer to chicken and egg is, the chicken and the egg. But that's for me. Because everybody is different. Maybe your doctor had a deeper meaning than I can interpret but it hasn't particularly been the case for me, I think at any rate.
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