Terry Real: I Don’t Want to Talk About It

I’ve started reading this book at the urging of my wife. It’s obvious I’ve been dealing with “covert” depression (as Real calls it) which has turned into “overt”.

My question, for anyone who has read it: I also suffer from great anxiety (and OCD). Would Real consider the OCD a byproduct of the covert depression (a distraction, something tangible for my feelings) or is the anxiety the cause of depression?