Depression Is anxiety a concept?

No. Is anxiety a type of depression?

Yes, it's all about the head

No. Depression is a mood disorder characterized by depressive mood (complete hopelessness, loneliness, boredom), loss of interest and pleasure in usual activities, appetite disturbances, sleep disturbances, psychomotor retardation or agitation, loss of energy, feelings of worthlessness and guilt, difficulty thinking, thoughts of death or suicide, etc.

Anxiety is a neurosis that is an unpleasant emotion in which you feel nervous and unpleasant, and you have a premonition that something unfavorable is about to happen, and it is difficult to deal with it. Generally, it has the following characteristics: (1) anxiety is an emotional state, and the basic inner experience of the patient is fear, such as fear, anxiety, or even extreme panic or terror; (2) This emotion is unpleasant and painful, and there can be a feeling of imminent death or imminent collapse and fainting; (2) the emotion points to the future, which means that some threat or danger is imminent or imminent; (4) there is no actual threat or danger, or, by reasonable measure, the anxiety-inducing event is disproportionate to the severity of the anxiety; (5) At the same time as the anxiety experience, there was physical discomfort, psychomotor retardation and autonomic nervous system dysfunction.

No, the former is suicidal.

A clear distinction between depression and anxiety disorders is clinically significant. The distinguishing points between the two are:

1. Depression is a kind of cerebral biogenic amine deficiency leading to a general decline in mental function and inhibitory psychosis, and the general clinical manifestations are inhibition of mental activity, low function, sluggishness and insensitivity, and a comprehensive decline in physical strength, energy and mental power; Anxiety disorder is a psychological disease with increased alertness of brain function, which is characterized by panic, nervousness, and unstable autonomic nervous system function, resulting in anxiety and anxiety in patients. To use a brief and popular analogy, depression symptoms are depressed downward, while anxiety and nervousness are panic upward.

2. Typical patients with depression have:"Lazy, sluggish, changeable, worried, worried""Five D signs"features, plus intractable insomnia and physical discomfort; Typical patients with anxiety disorders have:"Restlessness, discomfort, restlessness"Triple A sign - inexplicable nervousness, general malaise, and mental restlessness can be identified.

3. Psychological measurement: SCL-90, SDS and other clinical assessment forms all indicate that the depression score is clearly higher than the anxiety score (depression); In anxiety disorders, the anxiety score is greater than the depression score.

4. Age distribution: Depression is seen in the whole population, with the peak age of 25 and 35-year-old young people, children and adolescents, and the elderly. The incidence is higher in women than in men. Anxiety disorders are mostly middle-aged and elderly patients.

5. ** principle: antidepressants are the main drugs for depression, and anti-anxiety agents and sleep aids play an auxiliary role; Anxiolytics are used as the main drugs for anxiety disorders, and antidepressants play an auxiliary role.

6. Depression unless refractory cases: the prognosis is generally good, the first episode can be relieved by itself, and the anti-depression ** efficacy is more than 90%. There is a certain tendency, and the rate of re-emergence can be very high, and there is generally no mental disability after illness.

Short-term recovery after anxiety disorder**, the symptoms are eliminated quickly, but some patients cannot fully recover after a delay, and long-term low-dose maintenance medication is required, especially in middle-aged and elderly patients with anxiety disorder.

Are anxiety and depression a disease? What's the difference.

Anxiety disorders can cause panic, the heart beats fast, I feel like I can hear it, stomach upset, stomach cramps, indigestion, numbness in the body, mental fear, this is caused by adrenaline secretion, I am an anxiety disorder. There is no physical response to depression. If there is a physical reaction, it must be an anxiety disorder.

Anxiety disorders are a pathogenesis of mental illness. Although medical illness or biological dysfunction is not the sole cause of anxiety disorders, in some rare cases, anxiety symptoms can be caused by physical factors, such as hyperthyroidism and adrenal tumors. Many researchers are trying to find out whether the central nervous system of patients with anxiety disorders is not.

The incidence of depression accounts for a high proportion of mental and psychological disorders. This is a mental disorder, a mental disorder. The development of human psychological function is closely related to social activities and social environment, so depression is a psychosocial disorder.

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