When you worry too much about every day life events and your worrying and feeling anxious is of an exaggerated, excessive nature, but there is hardly any basis for your worrying, it is known as anxiety depression.
These feelings of anxiety worry and tension can be accompanied by depressing feelings of sadness.
Some of the topics which make victims of generalized anxiety disorder worry excessively are school or college or education related matters, work matters, family problems, money and health.
These people are always expecting a disaster to happen and sometimes, they are themselves aware that their fears or sadness or tensions are baseless and unrealistic.
But in spite of these phobias and worrying being groundless or disproportionate to the situation, they cannot reign in their worries.
Every day life for such people is a constant state of dread, fear and worry.
Symptoms of anxiety depression Mainly, anxiety and depression disorders affect an individual's cognitive behavior.
But sometimes, a disorder like this can manifest itself in physical symptoms as well.
Some of the common symptoms of anxiety depression are getting startled very easily, trembling, experiencing trouble in staying asleep or falling asleep, tiredness and fatigue, feeling the need to use the toilet repeatedly and frequently, nausea, difficulty in concentrating, sweating excessively, headaches, muscle tension, irritability.
A person suffering from anxiety depression might feel restless or edgy, he or she might have an unrealistic view of problems and he or she might experience ongoing and excessive tension and anxiety coupled with feelings of sadness.
This is not all.
Those who suffer from general anxiety disorders also often suffer from other types of related disorders like phobias, obsessive compulsive disorders, panic disorder as well as from depression.
People who suffer from general anxiety disorders and anxiety depression are also more likely to indulge in alcohol abuse or drug abuse.
Medication for treating anxiety depression Medications and drugs prescribed by doctors to cure general anxiety disorders on a short term basis are benzodiazepines.
Many people call them tranquilizers as they induce a sense of calm and relaxation.
This group of medicines can also minimize the symptoms of anxiety depression like restlessness and muscle tension.
Some of the most common benzodiazepines are Ativan, Valium, Librium and Xanax.
General anxiety disorders are also treated through antidepressants like Zoloft, Lexapro, Prozac, Effexor and Paxil etc.
These are the medications used for long term cure and they often take quite a few weeks to show results.