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Re: Anxiety + Depression must be separate conditions » mtdewcmu

Posted by SLS on January 1, 2010, at 23:47:53

In reply to Re: Anxiety + Depression must be separate conditions » SLS, posted by mtdewcmu on January 1, 2010, at 23:10:04

> > I don't think it is an either-or relationship.
> >
> > For me, anxiety is a symptom of my affective disorder. It resolves completely when the depression is treated successfully.
> >
> >
> > - Scott
>
> How would you know that only the depression was being treated, considering that the treatments are mostly the same?

First of all, I don't meet the DSM criteria for GAD. That might not be very pursuasive though, since the DSM description for GAD seems very primative.

My anxiety is situational rather than general. It is not present continually in the backround. In addition, I was a bipolar ultra rapid-cycler for a few years. The only time that anxiety was present was during the depressive phase. It miraculously disappeared, as did the depression, within an hour of the onset of the mood swing into euthymia.

A person can have two Axis I disorders at the same time. Depression and GAD can occur comorbidly.


- Scott

 

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