The difference between anxiety and depression 1, depression is often accompanied by anxiety symptoms: depression is often accompanied by anxiety symptoms, but depression is dominated by depression, anxiety is often just a reflection of the emotions shown by depressed patients, but also accompanied by other emotional reflections, such as obsessive-compulsive, hypochondriac, fear, etc. In clinical practice, a symptom scale can be used to test and distinguish the priority of symptoms. Fan Yuwen, a specialist at Guangzhou Xiejia Hospital, found that patients with anxiety disorders are often in a state of distraction, panic and nervousness, fear of disaster, accompanied by dizziness, sweating, hot flashes, tremor, numbness in the hands and feet, gastrointestinal discomfort and other symptoms. Anxiety and fear are different, the threat and danger felt by anxiety are unrealistic or not very clear. 2, suicidal thoughts: anxiety patients do not have suicidal thoughts, despite the fear, but not yet to die to escape; while depression patients often have suicidal thoughts or even suicidal behavior. 3, excessive worry about what may happen in the future: one of the main manifestations of anxiety disorders is to show excessive worry about things that have not happened, and patients will have painful feelings, while patients with depression will have more complex emotions, and will be accompanied by anxiety. 4, somatic symptoms reflect different: anxiety disorder and depression patients have different somatic symptoms reflect. The somatic symptoms of anxiety disorders are mainly related to the vegetative nerves, such as breathing, heartbeat, sweating, etc., while the somatic symptoms of depression patients have a certain solidity, such as “plum core gas”, pain in the two sides, heaviness around the body, etc. 5, avoidance: anxiety disorders because of anxiety also appear to avoid certain things, but not widespread interest and intention to decline; while depression is a widespread withdrawal and intention to decline. 6., anxiety disorders often coexist with depression: clinically speaking, more than eighty percent of depressed patients will have anxiety. For patients suffering from depression as well as anxiety disorders, depression should be treated before anxiety disorders. 7, from the age of onset: the first onset of anxiety is generally over 35 years old, mostly in the elderly; while depression occurs in all age groups; depressed patients show coldness to family and friends, and loss of interest in past hobbies, while anxious people remain normal; insomnia in depressed patients is characterized by early awakening, while anxious people are characterized by difficulty in falling asleep; depressed patients are depressed and reluctant to make contact with people. But not afraid of sudden interpersonal contact; while anxious people are afraid of sudden social contact, etc., and are afraid of going to public places; by and large, depression is inhibited downward; while anxious people are frightened upward; depressed mood is a very common emotional component that can occur in all people, and when people encounter mental stress, life frustration, painful situations, birth, old age, illness, death, natural or man-made disasters, etc., it is logical that they will produce Depression.