Anxiety-depressive disorder

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t is a combination of anxiety and depression that appear almost equally. It is characterized as a great emotional pain, since it presents low mood, low self-esteem, loss of interest, ability to enjoy or irrational worry. It is important to emphasize that none of them predominates over the other, that is to say, a separate diagnosis is not justified.

Anxiety is one of the psychological problems that most affect the general population, followed by depressive disorders. However, both have many things in common, which means that normally a situation of anxiety maintained over time can end up generating depressive symptoms.

It can also happen the other way around, i.e. it is common for depressed people to develop anxiety.

Depression and anxiety share symptoms. It is rare that the symptoms are completely separate. Some of these symptoms are:

Emotional pain: It is important to mention that in both disorders there is a lot of emotional pain, irritability, feelings of guilt and low mood.
Low self-esteem: In depression as in anxiety, people tend to have low self-esteem, which generates a great helplessness and feel or believe that they are not able to cope with life.

oth have the same symptoms, however, they also have some differences, such as:

Anhedonia: also known as lack of energy, it is more typical of depression, as they do not appear in people with pure anxiety.
Hyperactivity: It is more typical of anxiety, since people who usually suffer from it usually experience overexcitement because they anticipate the things that are going to come or have to do, however, overexcitement does not serve them at all. In a person suffering from depression their energy levels decrease so there is no hyperarousal.

What causes this mixed disorder?

There are different causes that lead people to suffer from this type of disorder. It can arise in combination with several factors, which are:

Biological factor: some biological factors can influence a person to suffer from this type of disorder, for example, an imbalance in brain chemistry due to deficiency of some neurotransmitters such as serotonin or dopamine.
Psychological factor: Here we find everything related to the personality of the individual, there are certain personality characteristics that are more vulnerable to suffer this type of disorder. It includes the person's own beliefs, thoughts, ideas or general perception of life.
Environmental factors: There are some environmental factors that are or grew up in a dysfunctional family, having received a type of insecure attachment or having had throughout life many difficulties and problems mainly of family and economic type.