emotional exhaustion

Dealing With Anxiety and Depression at the Same Time — The Emotional Double Exposure No One Sees

Dealing with anxiety and depression at the same time feels like living in two opposite emotional climates that somehow coexist in the same body. Anxiety tells you everything is urgent; depression tells you nothing matters. Anxiety pushes you into constant motion; depression pulls you toward emotional stillness. Anxiety fears the future; depression feels trapped by the present. It’s not dramatic—it’s disorienting. You wake up with a racing mind inside a heavy body, wanting to move and withdraw at the same time. You’re both overwhelmed and numb, restless and fatigued, wired and hopeless. This is what the world doesn’t understand: the suffering isn’t in each condition alone, but in the contradiction between them.