Bilateral neck pain when anxious or slept in bad posture. especially depression amplifies it. what causes such thing? male, 31

That's a complex ?: So I'll try to simplify. Muscle tension is the result of feeling uptight. When you sleep, you may position yourself in an awkward way. If you are depressed, you may sleep more often, or less often than usual, so you way position yourself in ways that you don't when you are feeling good. Depression also increases sensitivity to pain at the level of the brain. Some medical issues worsen these thing