Introduction
Have you ever wondered the difference between anxiety and depression? Have you ever experienced difficulty deciphering between the two? This article will clarify this dilemma. This article will provide readers with the differences between anxiety and depression. However, on a first note, it will provide readers with information on anxiety and depression.
What Is Anxiety?
What is anxiety? What signifies anxiety? According to anxietycoach.com, “Anxiety Disorders are characterized by a sense of doubt and vulnerability about future events. The attention of anxious people is focused on their future prospects, and the fear that those future prospects will be bad. Anxiety Disorders are characterized by a variety of symptoms involving anxious thoughts, unexplained physical sensations, and avoidant or self protective behaviors.” To explain further, anxiety is characterized by a sense of doubt about future events. You may have caught yourself saying the statement “what if?” This is anxiety.
What Is Depression?
What is depression? What signifies depression? According to anxietycoach.com, the following symptoms are present in someone who is depressed:
* Feeling sad, and/or hopeless
* Lack of interest and enjoyment in activities that used to be fun and interesting
* Physical aches and pains without physical cause; lack of energy
* Difficulty concentrating, remembering, and/or making decisions
* Changes in appetite and weight
* Unwelcome changes in usual sleep pattern
* Thoughts of death and suicide
Therefore, someone who is depressed experiences a sense of hopelessness.
What Is The Difference Between Anxiety And Depression?
What is the difference between anxiety and depression? This section of this article will answer this specific question. According to anxietycoach.com, “A person whose primary problem is depression, rather than anxiety, generally doesn’t show the same fear and uncertainty that people do with anxiety disorders. Depressed people are not so preoccupied with worrying about what might happen to them in the future. They think they already know what will happen, and they believe it will be bad, the same bad stuff that’s happening to them now.” Therefore, someone who is anxious has a sense of uncertainty about future events. In contrast to someone who is anxious, someone who is depressed does not experience a sense of uncertainty about future events. Instead, someone who is depressed experiences a sense of certainty about future events.
Conclusion
To conclude this article, it may be concluded that anxiety and depression appear quite similar to one another. However, the opposite is quite true. They are also quite different from one another, as well.
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