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Susan its highly possible.
PD is such an intense condition that it often hides, or at least makes it
difficult to deal with underlying depression and anxiety until after you
are cured for PD itself.
Even though you feel differently now, it may have been depressive
feelings that brought on your anxiety initially, or vice versa, as these
mood problems are closely inter-related.
Even though many people only take anti-depressants for 12 months or
so, some need them a lot longer. Maybe you arent ready to stop yet.
Some people take them without problems for 15 years or more.
What happened? Did you decide to take go off it because you were
feeling better, or had it pooped out on you?
I seem to have my panic in order, sort of anyway, and I too am feeling immense depression. I have weaned myself off of Celexa which I took for about 5 years for anxiety and I don't know whether its that which is causing the depression.
My own theory is that I have been constantly thinking about panic and agoraphobia for so long now (about 10 years) that now I'm better with it, I don't know what to do with myself and how to think, and how strange I feel without the meds and its all making me feel very depressed, hopeless and desperate, almost like it would be easier to have the panic back and live how I was living because I knew what to do with it then.
Does this make sense? By the way, the withdrawal from Celexa was so bad that my doctor ended up putting me on a minute amount of Prozac to level off some of the awful side effects. Perhaps it s that which is making me so desperately depressed. What do you think?
Yes, thank you, that sounds logical. I think you are right. Either I haven't completely dealt with the depression yet, or maybe my meds are pooping out! Or the worst case senario, is that it is biochemical. My father and my brothers and some great grand relatives all had suicidal tendancies and various mental deficiencies. But most of them were also gifted. I'm just glad it comes and goes, and I'm not completely debilitated from it. Thanks again!
Hi redface.
Remember that depression and anxiety are closely linked.
Sometimes underlying depression causes us to be anxious in the first
place, other times it is anxiety that makes us depressed.
My psychologist told me that step 1 if you have Panic Disorder is to
recover from panic disorder, and then deal with any underlying
depression and/or anxiety.
There are a number of reasons why you could feel depressed even if
recovering from panic disorder. They could be underlying, chronic
reasons that were hiding away or not that prominant because Panic
Disorder is so acute it takes preference when it presents itself.
It could also be biochemical. You mentioned in another post that you
werent 100% happy with your med at the moment. Which one are you
on?
Its probably a matter of now you want to deal with depressive feelings
that you actually have a chance to think about them and address them.
They may have always been there but the PD was dominant.
You should definitely talk with someone about this (at least your gp if
not a psych) because it could be your meds pooping out.
There are a lot of possibilities.
Most people feel that when their panic goes down , or lessons or goes away, that their depression goes too. I always thought that if I could only get rid of the anxiety I would loose all the depression as a side effect. But recently I am finding that although my panic level is really going down my depression level (which is moderate to low) is coming more into focus. I think I can get rid of panic symptoms or cope with them better now, but I also feel like I'm getting more depressed. Does anybody else feel that way, or know why it could be happening? I thought that if I faced my fears I would be happy, ....but it's not happening...Feeling down...
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