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Anxiety
I was listening to a podcast called The Experts Speak from the Florida Psychiatric Society, and while looking for a good place to post it, I couldn't find a thread general enough to address anxiety regardless of specific diagnosis.
The podcast I was listening to was "when anxiety turns into depression" which was put out July 2011 (and can be listened to from the above link.) A few years back I began researching PTSD and read that a difficult-to-medicate depression can develop as a symptom. This fit in well with the phases in my life which have triggered severe depression. It also fits the patterns I've seen my father to through throughout my life. He will be fine, then he seems to hit a wall of anxiety and then he just shuts down for long periods of time. Elsewhere I have read that regardless of the underlying diagnosis, anxiety disorders are often treated with the same or similar methods. I am not an expert, but I thought it might be good to have a general thread for those of us with anxiety symptoms to share experience and knowledge. This podcast mentioned anxiety was the most common psychiatric issue in women and the second most common issue among men - just after substance abuse.
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