The Interplay Between Anxiety and Depression

I remember sitting across from a therapist at the time who like you know did the tick box thing of like is she fitting into all of this criteria of like having no hope and you know not getting any joy from anything. I think it's this is another conversation entirely but when you get to that really chronic acute anxiety that depression can be very much a part of it. We're kind of facing this new era of issues which is lots of terms are being oversimplified so for example almost everything now is being broken down into anxiety and depression but actually there's a lot of nuance in the way that we feel. When we label our emotions it changes the activity in our brain dampening the experiences