Depression is something that makes you feel like you are hopeless about the future and you are not optimistic of your life in the long term and that is because of mainly the conclusions that you made out of the past experience Your depression is impacting the future but you are debilitated because of the inferences that you made due to certain events in life. Depression happens because you have anger or guilt or shame on your past experience of life and this mentality is impacting your future and vision of life.
You feel anxiety because you are stressed out on the future of life. You are worrying about the future, you are trying to control the uncontrollables and you are trying to change something by not taking an action. You feel anxious because you lack control over circumstances or you want to control something that you don’t have power over. To top it, you are not doing anything about it and not taking any action, then it worsens the anxiety.
Inaction and procrastination leads to anxiety. It is a result of feeling helpless and out of control of various factors in life. The more you delay the more anxious you feel. The more you postpone the work you have to do, the more you do unimportant stuff to feel busy. The more you focus on uncontrollables and a perfect day to start the more energy you would waste in thinking about the reasons for avoiding the real stuff you need to do.
Both anxiety and depression or either ends of the present moment. Depression is you controlling the past events and anxiety is you controlling the future events. Either way you are worrying about what is not present and what is not in your control. Now when it becomes repetitive and when you do not know how to handle this and what is happening biologically in your brain, then you would resort to involuntary actions of bringing your state of mind to present by indulging in temporary fun, instant pleasures and gratifications like playing video game or binge eating and watching some online content and gossiping something that wouldn’t add up to anything. You are just diverting your brain temporarily but it is not a good strategy.
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