What Depressive Anxiety Feels Like and What To Do About It (9 Types of Anxiety Quiz)

Revealed that you're struggling with depressive anxiety and you're not alone. In fact, 85% of people suffering with anxiety also report depression. Depressive anxiety is where you have the anxiety symptoms as well as symptoms of depression like feelings of worthlessness or hopelessness or despair. And so when we're treating anxiety that's mixed with depression, we want to make sure that as we're calming the nervous system and calming anxiety, that we're also not making you feel, feel more low or more sedated or more depressed. So the treatment has to have some nuance in it is number one is how can we calm the nervous system while boosting your mood, your self esteem and your motivation? Thankfully, I have a ton of information on exactly how to do that inside of the Holistic Wellness Collective. And the protocol is going to look something like this. Number one is you want to do your keystone event calendar. And so what this does is it maps you from the beginning to your current state. And we're looking for events, events that could be contributing to the way that you think about yourself, your feelings of safety, the way that you think about the world and others. And you're going to want to map those. And then you're also going to want to look at lab testing to see if there's an imbalance that might be contributing to feeling anxious or depressed. I give you a lot of specific labs in the Wellness Collective, but generally speaking, a really good starting place is to make sure that you're getting the basic blood work of CBC and and a CMP that looks at your red blood cells, your kidney health, your liver health, and I always include an iron panel which should include ferritin, a thyroid panel which should include reverse T3, and then lastly a vitamin D. There are tons of natural remedies that can help with lifting depression while calming anxiety that don't necessarily overstimulate you or over sedate you. There's awesome herbs, awesome supplements and awesome meditations and things that you could do to take back your power and they actually work. And so go and check out the link and I'm looking forward to seeing you on the other side.