@parus I think that PTSD does indeed have an effect on depression and anxiety. I think that it is an individual thing. I think that living with PTSD can induce depression or magnify it. Sometimes working past something is so difficult and that itself is tends to depression or anxiety because it's simply a lot of work! Sometimes we have spent so long PTSD and living with it, it's really hard to just get out of the way and say we're done with it and don't want it around, because it has become such a part of our life. To tell it to go away maybe like telling a friend to go away somebody you become comfortable with and that can be depressing.
Ginger