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Hello Hollywood, welcome to the site. You're doing all the right things when you are feeling like you are right now. See the shrink, get a diagnosis, work on the medications and work the CBT programme here and on the Anxiety sister site. Keep talking on here...
18 years ago 0 8760 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hollywood, You can take either our Depression Test or Anxiety Test, print it out and bring it to your doctor. This may help him/her with diagnosis. Danielle - Bilingual Support Specialist
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Thanks Danielle! I started on that site yesterday. Feeling more depressed than anxious today, so I started here. I'm hoping to get my GP to get me a referral to get a diagnosis as again, I have no idea which is the underlying cause. Take care and have a good night.
18 years ago 0 8760 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hi Hollywood, If anxiety is the underlying cause of your depression, we would refer you to our sister site: the Panic Center (URL:www.paniccenter.net) There you'll learn a lot of great strategies to help you better manage your anxiety. Danielle, Bilingual Support Specialist
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Hi everyone. Although I haven't been officially diagnosed, I am pretty sure I am now officially a statistic of someone who is having anxiety and depression. I initially thought something was physically wrong with me, worried I had brain cancer due to the dizzness and nausea, then the slow speech, etc. If I can trust the tests, I have a clean bill of health, however I can't turn off the switch since then about being anxious. Then I'm depressed about being anxious and then I'm scare that this will grow into a deep dark depression and I become even more anxious. I have always been in good health, don't drink or smoke, etc, nothing has happened to me in my past such as an assault, work and home are exactly the way I want them, but for the past 3-4 weeks I am fighting so hard just to avoid the anxiety and enjoy life again. How can my version of utopia be turned upside down all over what I thought was a severe illness. I am so concernced that i'll never get it back. I'm determined to fight this and seek help and wisdom from everyone I can.

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