Research has not established any specific class of diagnosis that can determine co-morbidity of depression and anxiety.
However, there is a broad acceptance that a general sense of fear, with or without panic symptoms, does appear along with depression in nearly half of the reported cases. Co-morbidity of bipolar depression and anxiety can be extremely difficult to manage in a patient.
Just as a passing feeling of sadness cannot be termed as clinical depression, brief periods of anxiety cannot be labeled as Anxiety Disorders. The symptoms for either disease need to be prevalent for approximately six months and impede normal working to be termed as an Anxiety Disorder.
There are different types of depression:
- Mild chronic depression – A persistent feeling of continuous sorrow that lasts for at least two years. This depression is also called dysthymia.
- Major depression – A condition of intense sadness, which may or may not be recurring
- Bipolar Disorders: A cyclic and episodic condition of depression and severe or mild mania (hypomania).
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