Youth with vs without chronic pain had higher rates of anxiety and depression, which suggests a need for improved mental health treatment in this group.
But anxiety can also result from an anxiety disorder and cause lasting or worsening symptoms. Anxiety and stress may prompt your fight-or-flight response. This bodily response evolved to help you ...
In DSM-III, hierarchical rules prohibited the diagnosis of GAD if another psychiatric disorder was comorbid with the chronic anxiety symptoms. In DSM-III-R, GAD was given independent status ...
Evidence suggests that both anxiety and depression ... disease (PD), as these mood disorders are more prevalent in individuals with PD than in patients with other chronic conditions.