1. A Dimensional Approach to Depression and Anxiety
Unipolar disorders contain major depression and dysthymic disorder and bipolar disorders contain Bipolar 1, Bipolar 2 and Cyclothymia. ... The General Distress group contains Major depression, PTSD, GAD and dysthymia (Watson, 2005). ... Anxiety tends to precede the onset of depressive disorders and is a risk factor for a depressive disorder. 66% of adolescents with anxiety disorder later developed a diagnosis of depression and only 6.5% of adolescents who had depression first later developed an anxiety disorder. ... The exclusion rule is common for patients who have a depressive disorder and ...
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