Anxiety and Depression are two of the most common psychiatric illnesses, which have become a major public health concern worldwide. Both conditions are treatable and highly comorbid.
“Approximately around 50% of people diagnosed with depression can also be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder”– Anxiety & Depression Association of America.
Anxiety may occur as one of the symptoms of clinical depression and can also act as a trigger for it. A number people get diagnosed with both anxiety disorder and clinical depression with women twice likely to be affected by Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Depression as men.
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