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Re: Polar Opposite of Anxiety (Dep:Mania as Anx??)

Posted by mike21 on April 7, 2002, at 8:46:30

In reply to Polar Opposite of Anxiety (Dep:Mania as Anx??), posted by fachad on April 7, 2002, at 7:52:42

I feel like depression is in some ways my brain's
reaction to anxiety, i.e. it is a mode of
conservatism it switches to when my thoughts
become uncontrollable. I wouldn't be suprised if
anxiety and mania were closely linked.

Mike

> What is the pathological state that is the polar opposite to anxiety?
>
> As Mania is to Depression, Anxiety is to ????
>
> Whatever it is, I think that's (part) of what I have. I don't ever feel anxiety, even when it would be an appropriate response. All kinds of bad things can be going on in my life and I appear calm from the outside - inside I am numb or I am melancholy. But never anxious.
>
> Does anybody else have this, or at least know what to call it?


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