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The symptoms of anxiety and depression disorders can be very similar. A diagnosis of mixed anxiety–depressive disorder as opposed to a diagnosis of depression or an anxiety disorder can be difficult. Due to this, it has long been a struggle to find a singular set of criteria to use in the diagnosis of mixed-anxiety depressive disorder. [3]
A prolonged period of elevated stress can lead to exhaustion, sleep disorders and a decline in cognitive abilities. [9] The diagnosis of exhaustion disorder is designed to capture a state of illness far removed from the transient stress of everyday life. [10]
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry about events or activities. [5] Worry often interferes with daily functioning, and individuals with GAD are often overly concerned about everyday matters such as health, finances, death, family, relationship concerns, or work difficulties.
Panic disorder is a mental and behavioral disorder, [5] specifically an anxiety disorder characterized by reoccurring unexpected panic attacks. [1] Panic attacks are sudden periods of intense fear that may include palpitations, sweating, shaking, shortness of breath, numbness, or a feeling that something terrible is going to happen.
[7] [8] The worried well are within ICD-10 code Z71.1—"Person with feared complaint in whom no diagnosis is made." [ 9 ] [ 10 ] They are distinct from those suffering from hypochondriasis (health anxiety), whose health concerns are chronic and rise to the level of a psychiatric condition ; [ 11 ] in contrast, anxiety experienced by worried ...
The ICD-11 includes bodily distress disorder, which bears similarities to somatic symptom disorder. While both conditions involve somatic symptoms, bodily distress disorder appears to be more strongly associated with the experience of physical symptoms, whereas somatic symptom disorder is more closely linked to psychological distress. [ 37 ]
Worsening dizziness with experience of complex visual environments such as walking through a grocery store; Heavy-headedness; a feeling of floating, wooziness; Symptoms of CSD can be worsened by any self-precipitated motion, usually from the head, or the witnessing of motion from another subject.
Towards the end of the century, the role of the uterus was no longer thought central to the disorder, with Thomas Willis discovering that the brain and central nervous system were the cause of the symptoms. Thomas Sydenham argued that the symptoms of hysteria may have an organic cause. He also proved the uterus is not the cause of symptoms. [41]