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Comparison And Contrast Anxiety And Depression

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Despite modern medical technology, diseases and disorders still manage to threaten mankind. While cancer, epilepsy, and autism should be thoroughly researched, the illnesses that are often overlooked are those of the mind. Thoughts and emotions are often dismissed as unimportant to our everyday lives as they are merely internal disorders hidden from the external world. However, those people suffering with these diseases and disorders don’t know they have it or don’t know how to handle it; they aren’t aware these disorders can be treated just as other disorders with the right treatment such as medication, therapy, or just talking with friends and family. While these treatments provide relaxation, relief of stress, feeling of control, and the sense of constant worry is minimized. For people with …show more content…

As anxiety and depression are progressing in today’s society, it’s becoming more crucial for the general population to understand how anxiety, depression, or the combination of the two affects the health of those afflicted with these disorders.
Anxiety alone is not one type of disease or disorder; it contains a variety of different types of diseases and disorders. Some examples of those disorders would be generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Focusing more specifically on generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), it is defined as being in a perpetual state of worry. An article by “Harvard Women’s Health” goes on to describe that “Exaggerated worry about health, safety, money, and other aspects of daily life that lasts six months or more” is a part of having GAD (Harvard Women’s Health 8). Furthermore, GAD can be “accompanied by muscle pain, fatigue, headaches, nausea, breathlessness, and insomnia” (Harvard Women’s Health 8). All of these are symptoms and side effects of anxiety,

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