New atheist/ Ex-christian with depression and anxiety

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New atheist/ Ex-christian with depression and anxiety

If anyone has constructive not negative thoughts about anxiety and depression on both sides of belief and unbelief please let me know.
I don't know how many people on here are Ex-christian or exbelievers in a god but I am. It is a completely different experience in most aspects of how I see the world.
So for much of my life I've dealt with anxiety and depression. It never made sense to me as a Christian why I would be depressed if I believed in Jesus but I was.
Yet it made sense to me why atheists would be depressed since they don't believe in a heaven or afterlife. Now that I don't believe in the Bible but I don't know what else to believe in I'm not ready to believe there is no afterlife or reason for spirituality and I can't believe we don't have a soul.
The idea that nothing happens when we die and our emotions might just be electrical signals. Is depressing me and giving me anxiety.

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