How do I find out if I have anxiety/depression or I just made it up?

The best treatment for severely low mood is time. The best treatment for anxiety is to resolve your problems and adjust your mindset to immovable problems. Make sure to carefully and gradually prune dysfunctional rigidity or obsessive stuff in your mind, if you have that.

Most people's depression and anxiety is in relation to fucked up shit in their lives combined with their own maladaptive reactions. We all have some fucked up shit in our lives that we'd do better without. We all have something we're, from our own points of view, lacking.

Should I try meds doctor prescribed me?

That's your choice, not the doc's or mine. The SSRIs can cause some moderately disturbing side effects like emotional flatness or sexual dysfunction. The general consensus is that these side effects go away after stopping the drug. Almost everyone agrees they decrease but some people swear they have a milder, more residual form of the side effect.

you're back!

you've been making this thread for like 6 months now
just decide already for god's sake

well that was pretty gay. I'm not depressed but still got a 20. therapists must really be raking it in if the bar is this low.

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For me, depression is when nothing brings me joy anymore. I've been depressed for 2 years an i am starting to forget what it's like to not be depressed. How to know if you are depressed or not? Well, depression is crippling: you cant concentrate on things, nothing is exciting, hearing birds sing is like listening to some racket... so if you are depressed you will know it. If you are just feeling sad/disappointed/lonely or whatever, you still may not be depressed.

Try to think what was like when you wasnt depressed. How much was the difference? Example: yesterday it was a sunny spring day and i remembered how when i was a kid, i used to paly GTA san andreas and friends would come to my place and have fun, then we would go out and ride our bikes. It was joyful. Thats how i remind myself what joy means. I can't have any simmilar fun nowadays mainly beause i am unable to feel any kind of joy (being too old for gta is not the true reason), thats how you know you have depression. Of course, if you've been depressed for whole life then you have no idea what it's like to be without it.

Tell my about yourself user, maybe i can help you. Likewise, I've also been perscribed SSRI but i am not taking them (yet). If you dont trust your doctor, switch to another one.

>Tell my about yourself user, maybe i can help you
I've been anxious (mostly socially anxious) since birth and I used to be addicted to video games, now I am addicted to internet, when I was younger I enjoyed doing sport, programming, playing vidya and listening to music, now I only enjoy listening to music
my depression has been growing since a few years, now I don't enjoy anything and can't focus on anything
I think I am depressed because of social anxiety but I can't overcome it despite going to martial arts classes since I was 7 and exposure to social situations

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This sucks. You probably need professional help, not necessarily pills, just some help for a start.