Would you rather...

Be horribly and hopelessly depressed

Have inescapable overwhelming anxiety

Depression or Anxiety?

Oct 2, 2009

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Be horribly and hopelessly depressed

Overwhelming anxiety creates constant, unrelenting physical tension and panic that makes even basic tasks impossible
Someone who has personally dealt with severe anxiety chose depression as the more survivable condition
Depression may allow for occasional periods of calm; inescapable anxiety offers no such reprieve

Have inescapable overwhelming anxiety

Someone who spent years managing clinical depression found it so debilitating that anything, including severe anxiety, is preferable
Anti-anxiety medications may offer more reliable symptom relief than treatments for depression
Severe depression removes all motivation and desire to engage with life; anxiety at least leaves the will to act

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Would you rather...

Be horribly and hopelessly depressed

Have inescapable overwhelming anxiety