Anxiety and depression are totally different illnesses. They can however feed off each other.
I have had anxiety always: first day back at School, meeting new people, going to strange places, interview nerves, driving test worries.
I had a lot of tears the night B4 my period began, even if 1 wasn't due. But that was different to the depression that hit me in the middle 1980s. I had heavy, clotty bleeds, nausea, intense crippling pain every month until I insisted on The Pill. In my 30s NAPS advised me to eat every 3 hours because I suffered intense, sudden almost-going-2B-sick feelings ........ I have kept to that regime since.
Peri came and went with a lessening of periods, less nausea, then suddenly I was bleed free. By then my medication regime was sorted. I did have intermittent itchy skin and VA eventually caught up with for which my GP gave appropriate treatment.
4 me anxiety surges feel like hot water coursing through my veins, frightened me to death for the first few times it happened
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Teresa - I prefer to go shopping alone so that if I have a panic attack I don't have to justify why I'm fleeing the situation
. I avoid certain situations to avoid the possibility of panic attacks. It's taken years to get where I am .........
