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Stress and depression are interlinked they go hand in hand. In many cases and if you are experiencing severe stress you might begin to experience depression and vice versa. Stress and depression together can create a very hard to treat situation. In order to help with both of them you would need extensive therapy because medication will make one worse and one better.

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Why Do Depression and Anxiety Go Together?

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Physical signs of depression
Weight loss or gain
Unkempt hygiene
Fatigue/tiredness

Coping with depression
Many people with depression will see improvements in their lives once they start seeing a therapist and or physiatrist. They can help you work through your problems and provide coping skills. If that doesn't help depressed patients will most likely go on an antidepressant like prozac, zoloft, lexapro, etc..

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Antidepressants and antianxiety medication can be helpful for many people experiencing severe anxiety of depression. 

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Depression
Lack of serotonin and feeling extreme unhappiness. Receiving little to no happiness from things that usually bring you joy. Feeling worthless and having no self esteem.

Burnout
Usually related to your work and professional life. Does not usually affect your self esteem and your life outside of work. You are able to feel happiness and joy in the things that usually make you happy. You will have low energy and will most likely experience extreme stress.

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How to understand Distress and Eustress?

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Therapy is a great way to deal with depression and stress. Being able to want to go to therapy and talk about your emotions are big steps toward getting better.

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Depression comes in many forms. I think this picture represents fatigue and social isolation two of the many factors involved in depression.

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Distress
School Work
Jobs
Money
Breakups
Divorce
Death of a family member

Eustress
Starting school
Watching a scary movie
Love
Winning a race/competition
Romantic Relationships

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Eustress is what you experience on a roller coaster. Roller coasters are fun but you most likely get nervous for them as well but mostly you feel excitement.

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Distress, the man in the image is clearly stressed about his work. Work would be classified as a distressor because it is negative stress. 

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Eustress
Eustress is good stress. Stress that benefits you and doesn't cause negative health effects.
Distress
Distress is bad stress and often times chronic stress. It affects you in harmful ways by causing anxiety, depression, lack of motivation, and it can even have effects on your physical health like high blood pressure, and gastrointestinal issues.

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My blind spots are being calm under pressure, and optimistic. I struggle to be calm and optimistic because of anxiety. Anxiety prevents me from looking on the bright side and being able to live without worrying too much and second guessing myself. In order to improve upon those I have to help my anxiety. Self Awareness is a good skill to help with anxiety.

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Wanting to become more self-aware is the first step to true self-awareness. Making time to ask yourself about your actions and what you say, make sure to also analyze why other people do things look at the situation through their point of view. Think about why you feel the way you feel and be mindful about how that can affect your attitude, energy, mood, and how you treat other people.

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Self Awareness Featuring The Character Effect™ Characters

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Having awareness of yourself, your thoughts, the outside world, your actions, what you say, and your perception of others.

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Hard Working
Honesty
Open Minded
Determined
Intuitive