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@applepie Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect! While we wait for others to give us their experiences, let me give you some thoughts.

Are you taking any medications? If so, does the depression and anxiety coordinate with the timing of those? Do you exercise in the morning, gaining the dopamine effect that it can bring, and lowering your feeling of depression? Is there something in your daily schedule that you don't want to do/participate in, that makes you feel sad? I think there are several factors that you can look at, that might be causing what you are experiencing. Good for you for trying to understand what is going on.
Ginger

Are you on meds?

Hello. I just Googled your condition. AI lists many conditions that should be checked. Morning cortisol levels, thyroid hormones to rule out hyperthyroidism, and melatonin levels. I use Google AI and mayoclinic.org to do searches. Then I am informed when I go to my doctor. There have been, MANY TIMES I have helped find the answer to my condition. Twice, I have had to go to another doctor to get the correct diagnosis. And Twice I was initially told it was psychological. Both times, it was not! Wishing you a good diagnosis.

With mayoclinic.org, you first go to symptoms and signs, and see what comes up as possible diagnoses, and then go and read about those conditions. Then, ofcourse, go to a doctor. Many PCPs are ignorant of aspects of specialty conditions such as cardiology, endocrinology, neurology, and genetics, however, so sometimes you have to aggressively pursue a diagnosis. I have had to fight for a cardiologist, a geneticist, and an infectious disease doctor. They were the ones who gave me my diagnosis.

Yes I tend to because my dogs are ready for their daily run at the fairgrounds. I am a good housekeeper but get tired.There are a few dishes trash etc. I clean our bathroom every day. I walk 3000 steps daily. I think I get overwhelmed easily and in our world now it seems difficult to complete tasks. Something unplanned for with the bank deliveries etc taking time. I make am effort to calm myself.

Thank you for the note. I don't currently take meds. I (this week) was prescribed an SSRI (Lexapro 10MG), but I haven't yet started. I'm hoping I can delay a bit and try to fix through lifestyle and if not, will try the SSRI.

No not yet. I have a prescription for 10MG of Lexapro, but haven't started yet.

I've had issues with anxiety -> if it gets really bad, it can flip over to feeling depressed. However - I've been on a 10 year streak without issues (I'm male, mid 50's). Not sure why all of a sudden it's coming back. Job is good, fam is good, no other health issues. So weird. . . . started when I had maybe 4 or 5 days or horrible sleep due to the holiday season (late night parties, early morning wake up). Thats the only thing I can think of - that week messed up my chemistry or something and it's sort of 'stayed stuck' since.