I have anxiety and depression.

The kind that doesn’t go away, and you take pills to manage.

This is not a secret.

What's more interesting is that I just switched medications from one that successfully managed the depression but not the anxiety to one that successfully manages the anxiety but not the depression, giving me a brief window to see my two comorbid conditions separated from each other, for the first time since ever.

What follows is a (brief) digression on what they’re like from the inside.

Depression

I’m still me when I’m depressed.

Just a version of me that's sapped of all initiative, energy, and tolerance for human contact.

There are plenty of metaphors for depression - a grey fog being one of the most popular - but I often think of it in the context of inertia.

Inertia is matter's tendency to [...]

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Outline:

(00:37) Depression

(03:02) Anxiety

(04:59) Conclusion

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https://affablyevil.substack.com/p/anxiety-vs-depression

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