With the rapid development of society, it also leads to people's life, work, academic and other pressures, many people suffer from a variety of psychological diseases. Mental illness is sometimes more terrible than physical illness. So what's the difference between anxiety and depression? Let's have a look.
The difference between anxiety and depression
1. Suicidal thoughts
Anxiety patients generally do not want to commit suicide, although they are also afraid, but they do not want to use death to escape. Depression patients usually have suicidal thoughts, and even suicidal behavior.
2. Depression often accompanied by anxiety symptoms
Depression is often accompanied by anxiety symptoms, but depression is mainly depression, anxiety is often just an emotional reflection of depression patients, but also accompanied by other emotional reactions, such as obsession, hypochondriasis, fear, etc. Clinical symptoms can be measured by symptom scale to distinguish the primary and secondary symptoms.
3. Upset, frightened and nervous
Anxiety patients are often in a state of anxiety, panic and tension, and fear of disaster, accompanied by dizziness, sweating, hot flashes, tremor, numbness of hands and feet, gastrointestinal discomfort and other symptoms. Anxiety is different from fear. The threat and danger that anxiety feels are unrealistic or not very clear.
4. Physical symptoms
Anxiety and depression patients have different body symptoms. The body reactions of anxiety disorders are mainly related to autonomic nerves, such as respiration, heartbeat, sweating, etc.; while the body symptoms of depression patients have certain stability, such as "Mei nuclear Qi", two flank pain, heavy body, etc.
5. Avoidance psychology
After suffering from depression, patients will have a very obvious avoidance psychology, lose interest in social and other common food, and avoid comprehensively. And anxiety patients avoid certain things, not widely.
6. Age of onset
The first onset of anxiety is generally over 35 years old, mostly in the elderly, while depression occurs in all age groups. Patients with depression show indifference to their family members and friends, loss of interest in the past, while those with anxiety remain normal.
7. Worry too much about what may happen in the future
One of the main manifestations of anxiety disorder is to show excessive worry about what has not happened. The patients will feel pain, while the patients with depression will have more complex emotions, accompanied by anxiety.
8. Anxiety and depression often coexist
Clinically speaking, more than 80% of patients with depression will have anxiety. For patients with depression and anxiety, we should treat depression first and then anxiety.
9. Principles of treatment
Antidepressants are the main treatment drugs for depression, and anxiolytics and hypnotics play an auxiliary role. At present, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are still the main drugs, which are most widely used in clinical. The main drug of anxiety disorder is antianxiety agents, mainly benzodiazepines, which have good therapeutic effect, high safety and small side effects. They have the functions of anti epilepsy, relaxation of muscle tension, sedation and sleep, and the antidepressants play an auxiliary role.
Read the above article, I believe you have understood the difference between anxiety and depression. There are many differences between anxiety disorder and depression. Depression is often more serious. In addition, they are also interrelated. More than 80% of patients with depression will also have anxiety symptoms.
