Can anxiety cause me to feel depressed?

Yes, anxiety and depression go hand in hand but that doesn't mean that if you have one you have both

Yes! For me it did. I'd have anxiety about a certain situation, not want to participate due to that anxiety, and therefore would get depressed.

Anxiety can be linked with depression. A common feature of anxiety and depression both is the self-beration (example: 'oh geez I'm so dumb I can't even take care of myself/I shouldn't have asked that question it's so obvious'). If you suffer from severe enough anxiety, it's entirely possible that depression might be linked.

for me, it did. i often felt that i wasn't good enough because of my anxiety. while i realize now that that isn't true, it is something that i really struggled with

Yes, your anxiety can make you depressed, its just a general thing that most anxiety people get. to be safe make sure to get it checked

First of all, great question. Second of all there is no answer for that. Everyone is different. Some people can have anxiety and it can cause depression. Others can have depression that can cause anxiety. It all comes down to each individuals brain and how the chemicals balance out.

absolutely yes, it's one of the many "side effects" about anxiety. Try working out, that REALLY helps :) you have to overcome your anxiety so you can overcome you depression. Hope this helps!

Yes. Anxiety and depression may go hand in hand, but one may be more severe and occur more often than the other. Regardless of whether you may struggle with anxiety alone, or with depression, it is very important to receive help and learn what coping strategies work for you.

Yes, it can, it's totally normal to have one mental health issue and have the other. I'm sorry you're going through this

Yes. It may cause to feel that way. But remember you have time to relieve that feeling, just know you don’t need to worry so much just do you.

Yes!!! For sure. I was in a really dark place and didn't want to be alive anymore. I worked up the courage to tell my mom and was brought to the doctor- took the tests and my doctor said that I have such severe anxiety which causes me to not want to live. The major anxieties and struggles of wanting to be perfect and the best made my life unenjoyable. So yes, it can cause you to feel depressed!

Yes. It can lead to repetitive or depressive thoughts and thus, to long periods of sadness and depression.

Yes. Typically anxiety (as Charles Darwin who struggled with it himself pointed out) is adaptive in the sense that undertaking risky activities or being in risk-filled places can cause anxiety, which would in turn cause us to avoid those activities or situations. There are times however, when people feel as though they are under constant threat and people experiencing anxiety are unable to cognitively locate the source of it either in an activity or environment. After some time with this condition, a person will begin to avoid all activities and situations resulting in disconnection with the outside world, and be actively be motivated to do as little as possible -- the result is depression. Many people have little awareness of whether or not they are experiencing anxiety, because it can easily be confused with motivation in the sense that both states will cause us to heighten our focus and attention, so in my view it's unlikely for developmental depression to be caused by anything other than anxiety, whereas psychiatric depression is likely rooted in abnormal brain development as it pertains to brain chemistry.