Can depression/anxiety cause a lack of common sense?
This might sound silly... but over the past few weeks I've felt as though my decision making skills and common sense have been seriously sub-par. I've been making stupid calls on things at work and just 10 minutes ago, someone rang my apartment looking for someone (who must live elsewhere in the building). I told him he had the wrong apartment, he apologized and then I said "But did you need to come in?" and I freaking BUZZED HIM IN. Some guy I don't know. He could be here to cause harm to the person he was looking for, for all I know. I was washing dishes at the time and it wasn't until I'd gone back to the sink and turned the water back on that my brain clicked and I realized that was probably the most stupid call one could make in such a scenario. I've made similar common-sense-lacking decisions a few times at work over the last week or so. It's embarrassing and not like me. I've struggled with mild-moderate depression for 13 or 14 years now, since I was a pre-teen and anxiety ever since I can remember. I have never been medicated for either. I find that both get worse during the winter months, not sure if it's the depression causing more anxiety or the anxiety causing deeper depression but they go hand in hand. I can not ever remember having my common sense/decision making skills impaired like this though - to the point where I am very aware on more than one occasion that I've made the distinctly "wrong" choice in a situation AFTER the fact. I feel as though the last several weeks have been a little rougher mentally than in past years and am thinking maybe that could have something to do with it? I guess I'm just wondering if other people have experienced this and found it was related to depression and/or anxiety.
Is distracting yourself from depression healthy?
Professional help is about the same as self-help, if you're speaking of therapy. Sure, doctors can give you pills to pop but then you have to deal with side-effects and sometimes these meds don't even work. Instead of spending all sorts of time on youtube, maybe you could do your research for depression self-help and apply what you learn to your daily life, in the long-term. Because you are always going to be the one who is in charge of making positive life changes for yourself. No one else can do this. And a therapist is much the same as a self-help website... they give you ideas, things to work on, and help you find a better life direction. But you're the one who has to put forth effort. However, doing both therapy and self-help never hurt anyone, either. You do what you need to do for YOU. Depression can cause us to be lethargic and totally unmotivated, but the truth is, most people get this way often and we just have to force ourselves to do what we have to do in order to get great results. You can also try some self-esteem self-help work. Maybe work on gratitude. I hope you'll get good help, and ESPECIALLY help YOURSELF! Take care of YOU -- no one else will.
How can somebody snap out of depression/anxiety?
I'm a 22 year old male. I have severe depression and anxiety and it controls my life. Im single and never had a girlfriend. Haven't gotten a date in 2 years. I have no education other than high school, I have no car, live with my parents, and other crap. I'm not looking for pity but this depression and anxiety has kept me from doing a lot throughout the years. I'm already 22, I should have a career, a steady relationship, my own place, a car, and all of that. Yet, I'm too afraid of women(mostly attractive women) to talk to them. I was afraid to go back to college because school was hell for me. Its stopped me from doing so much. I'm sick of living in fear but I can't stop it. Ive taken panic attacks before I go out to the bar because I'm afraid a woman might talk to me, but I WANT a woman to talk to me. I can't deal with this anymore.
How do i get rid of anxiety/depression without meds ?
My parents refuse to let me go on any medications. But I'm really depressed and I get panic attacks all the time. I can't control it. I try to distract myself or tell myself it's all in my head but it won't go away.
Anxiety makes me want to self harm!! :-/?
Hello! You need to either, 1) speak to someone in your treatment/care team(therapist/ keyworker /ect) or 2) google 'self half distractions' Here are just a few: • Scream as loud as you can • HIT a cushion / punch bag / throw a cushion against a wall • Smash a water melon • Kick a football against a wall • Squeeze ice really hard • Squeeze a stress ball • Tear up a newspaper/phone directory • Play loud music and dance energetically – be as wild as you like • Draw on the place you want to cut with red marker pen, fake blood or watered down food • Colouring • Write words on yourself with a red marker pen • Spend some energy - go for a walk/swim/go to the gym/ride a bike/go running EDIT: Check this website! http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/PDF/Self-harm%2...
Is flicking a rubber band on your wrist lightly due to anxiety self harm?
Thanks for the A2A.The literal definition of self-harm is “causing harm to oneself,” however, I would take it as being something slightly different. I would consider self-harm to be “intentionally causing harm to oneself with purpose of thought”. In other words, what makes harming oneself into self-harm is the intention of self-harming.You are flicking a rubber band against your arm because it’s a tick that reduces your anxiety. Technically you are harming yourself by doing it, but you’re not actively trying to self-harm, so I would say that no, it is not.The rubber-band method is a common way of avoiding more serious forms of self-harm. In those instances it is self-harm, as people are using it to harm themselves in place of more serious forms. They want to self-harm, so are using the rubber-band method rather than cutting, burning or scratching.The rule of thumb, to be honest, is that if you’re asking if something is self-harm then it probably isn’t. If you need to ask to know if an action counts as self-harm then it doesn’t - because you’re worried that it could be misconstrued as such, but aren’t actively trying to do it yourself.Don’t worry about it. It’s a good method of reducing anxiety and I hope that it works well for you. As far as it goes in terms of self-harm, seeing as you’re not trying to hurt yourself (you’re just using the band to reduce anxiety) then no, it doesn’t count as self-harm.
Does cutting help depression? Why or why not?
Yes.Manifesting the pain you feel inside into something more tangible and visible gives me relief. It's very frustrating to look in the mirror and you seem fine to the outside world or yourself.When you cut you feel relief because that sense of detachment/ depersonisation you feel when you live inside your head/emotional world is relieved when you are shocked back inside your body. Things seem more Real. It grounds you in some way. Unites the spirit/mind with the body again.“There! Now I've got reason to feel pain because there is now something physical to see. The severity of the physical directly relates to the severity of emotional harm you suffer”This is what I can explain in my situation of cutting.I have cancer now after 10 years of acute stress. And I believe “I” manifested the cancer in order to relieve and release the emotional pain I've felt for so many years. Like an abscess erupting. Now the healing can begin. Emotionally and physically.Hope this helps.PS: Ever watched Fight Club? With Brad Pitt and Edward Norton? Watching the movie gave me a great sense of being ok. You have to watch it!Quoted from Wikipedia:Start Quote: Instead of the characters being paralyzed by traumas, the traumas are "romantic" traumas that "shake people awake and remind them that they are alive and full of possibility".[10]Through fight clubs, "the desecrated body is a central image in slumming trauma" with injuries being fetishes in the genre.[13]The romanticism is a paradox in the slumming trauma genre; the characters identify with decay to be "purifying" and identify with the degraded to be "transcendent"End Quote