Brad Schipke explains that anxiety fears the future, depression dwells in present sadness, and PTSD makes you relive past danger as if it's happening now. Because PTSD is trauma-based, treating only the anxiety or depression won't work. Healing requires targeting the trauma itself.
How is PTSD different from anxiety or depression? Well, PTSD often includes both anxiety and depression, but it's not the same thing. So anxiety generally is a fear about the future, and depression is a sadness or hopelessness about the present. So anxiety is typically a fear about the future, depression is sadness or hopelessness about the present, and PTSD is really about reliving the past— your brain and your body reacting to a danger that's no longer there. So it's really like time traveling emotionally, and that's why traditional treatments for anxiety or depression don't always work, because PTSD needs specific trauma healing. And when you process the root cause instead of just managing the symptoms on a top level, the anxiety and depression that are caused from the PTSD and trauma fade away. So all of it's connected, and if you want to learn how to heal the root instead of just coping, make sure to subscribe.
