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Differentiating Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms

Coexistence of anxiety and depressive symptoms is common:

Differentiating Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms

 

·        Coexistence of anxiety and depressive symptoms is common: 

o   Depressive symptoms occur secondarily especially in panic disorder, agoraphobia and OCD. If anxiety disorders go untreated ® demoralised and progressive restrictions on function ® depression 

o   Anxiousness and irritability are seen in the majority of depressed patients, panic attacks may occur


·        Differentiating:

o   GAD/Panic disorder don‟t usually have full range of vegetative symptoms

o   Anxious patients have trouble getting to sleep, depressed wake early

o   Anxious patients don‟t loose the capacity to enjoy things or be cheered up

o   Asking which symptoms came first can be helpful

 


 


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