By Judy Petrushka, Your Tango, June 18 , 2019.
It's not all in your head, but your physiology does play a role.
When signs of depression and the signs of anxiety team up, you can feel stuck while your mental health suffers.
For some people, the experience may be a sense of ping-ponging. That is, first they have the racing heart, racing thoughts, fear, and possibly a severe anxiety attack. Then they experience the pervasive shutdown, low energy, numbness, sleepiness, and even dissociation of depression.
For others, depression symptoms and anxiety symptoms teaming up may feel as if both are happening at the same time. It feels like driving a car with one foot on the gas while simultaneously engaging the emergency brake. Imagine the strain this would put on your car — at some point, the engine will blow!
When your depression simultaneously teams up with your anxiety disorder, it's not good news.
It puts you at risk for heart disease, asthma, chronic pain, irritable bowel syndrome, autoimmune diseases, and migraines, just to name a few.
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