title: Is it anxiety or depression?
abstract: Physicians are often confronted with the problem of differentiating between depression and anxiety. In accumulated data on 500 patients with subsequent diagnosis and successful treatment of primary depression, only a few had had a tentative diagnosis of depression rather than anxiety. Failure to differentiate between depression and anxiety results in inappropriate and ineffective treatment.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000525:Alprazolam; D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D001569:Benzodiazepines / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D000928:Antidepressive Agents; D001569:Benzodiazepines; D000525:Alprazolam