Hello Pam. You have given a great descriptive action of one of the many manners of depression. It's the brain. How we treat it is important. The sooner we understand the stage we are dealing with the better we function. Most recently I get up every morning, no matter what happens the night before and feel consumed with anxiety and all its symptoms. I start my morning routine by completing a few tasks... taking my meds, reading, preparing a list for the day and saying hello to folks on MDT. Find what makes you function. Much love and take care.

Hi Pams, I am the exact same way, dear friend, and for me I get especially targeted by events that take place in reference to other people who suddenly trigger me in various ways. . Or I can be fine seemingly and then my mood changes for the worse .. I have a mood disorder called depression and another called anxiety (just plain ol' fear, really) who both want to destroy me, i.e. kill me psychospiritually and physically, I do believe. . They take delight when they can bring me lower then lower . . I really believe that they are entities that Jesus dealt with when he was said to have been casting out demons. . So far, he has not cast any demons out of me but I hope someday that that will happen and that I will then have victory over them and won't be controlled by them, dear one . . Peace, love, grace, and mercy (hesed) to you, Pams. . Sam, Isamu, and aka Cool Cat. .😙. .

Hi y'all, For me I know that this has its roots in the awful beatings that I and my two older brothers received from my dad for many years and the complicity or maybe even the instigation of my mom in that. . This has caused me to react all my life in the fight or flight mode . . I can swing from passivity to fear to aggression within a second or two and you don't want to be around me when I get triggered like that as it's not a pretty picture. . I got into it with two cops when I was younger when they came to my hse. to serve a warrant on me for something silly that had been pinned on me and I told them I wasn't going to jail. . We wrestled in my living rm. and they tasered me to stop me in my tracks. . One of the cops got his hand hurt. . They charged me with resisting arrest and called 911 for an ambulance to take me to the hospital so I could get the taser effect checked on and then they took me to jail. . I was what I call being in the zone and I wasn't going to let anyone aggress on me if I could help it. . Cool Cat. .

I think it might having something to do with being highly attuned to internal and external changes. The slightest of vibrations can trigger an emotional reaction.

Hi Pam. Even the doctor's don't know the mechanism of depression. It can come out from nowhere. When you are depressed, try to find things you are grateful for and pray.