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Why does depression hurt physically?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 476841" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Steely</p><p></p><p>I know this is an old post, but I'm going to respond anyway, although I'm not sure it will come out right.</p><p></p><p>Of course I've been depressed since husband's death, situational depression, normalish. </p><p></p><p>But I have this odd thing when I'm depressed and it's hard to figure out the chicken and the egg to it.....(which came first) My muscles tighten. Seriously. Even muscles I'm not normally aware I even have. At first it's achy, but it doesn't take long for it to become downright painful, really painful. </p><p></p><p>My theory on the pain: anxiety triggered by depression. Although, like I said, I'm not sure which comes first. But they do seem to be tied together. The anxiety causes my muscles to tighten, the worse the anxiety.....the worse the pain because the worse the muscles knot up. </p><p></p><p>I was in love with klonopin. The psychiatrist looked at me funny when I told him so. Then I added, it was the first time my upper back muscles had been relaxed in<em><strong> years</strong></em>. Soon as he took me off it 3 months later....they were one big knot again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 476841, member: 84"] Steely I know this is an old post, but I'm going to respond anyway, although I'm not sure it will come out right. Of course I've been depressed since husband's death, situational depression, normalish. But I have this odd thing when I'm depressed and it's hard to figure out the chicken and the egg to it.....(which came first) My muscles tighten. Seriously. Even muscles I'm not normally aware I even have. At first it's achy, but it doesn't take long for it to become downright painful, really painful. My theory on the pain: anxiety triggered by depression. Although, like I said, I'm not sure which comes first. But they do seem to be tied together. The anxiety causes my muscles to tighten, the worse the anxiety.....the worse the pain because the worse the muscles knot up. I was in love with klonopin. The psychiatrist looked at me funny when I told him so. Then I added, it was the first time my upper back muscles had been relaxed in[I][B] years[/B][/I]. Soon as he took me off it 3 months later....they were one big knot again. [/QUOTE]
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