Posted by yxibow on March 11, 2006, at 2:41:45
In reply to How often is anxiety a cosymptom of depression?, posted by sdb on March 10, 2006, at 18:55:35
> I ask me how often anxiety is a attendant symptom of depression or vice versa. I suppose that anxiety occurs very often with depression.
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> Any thoughts?
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> ~sdbFor me -- especially in college and earlier, it was either treat the anxiety or the dysthymia -- invariably an SSRI was fine for depression but may have caused temporary or ongoing raise of anxiety. So then you fill in with a benzodiazepine. And the cycle goes on.
I think I suffer from both, although at the moment I have an entirely new and completely different life wasting somatiform condition that probably supercedes any of the above except treatment for secondary depression. The anxiety is masked subconsciously by the disorder.
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