The Relationship between Anxiety and Depression in Neurotic Patients

Abstract

Objective: The relationship between neurosis and symptoms of anxiety and depression is very complex. Although a variety of self-report measures are beginning to be utilized to assess anxiety and depression in neurotic adults. So the purpose of the study was to better understand the phenomenology of neurotic symptoms depression and anxiety in an adult clinic sample.Method: The present study was conducted on 100 participants who have been divided in two groups. First group includes 60 patients (17 males and 43 females) with an average age 44,2 years, treated at the Department of Psychiatry of Clinical Hospital in Tetovo, with a clinical diagnosis of neurosis. The diagnosis of neurosis is set against the classification DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorder). They also had anxiety and depression in their clinic picture. All subjects were under pharmacological treatment with adequate psychopharmacological treatment. The second group includes 40 non anxious and non depressed control participants. The Beck depression Inventory (BDI) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) were applied to the entire study populations. Results: The results of the research showed that participants obtained more extreme scored on he BDI and BAI then did control subjects. Pearson correlation between two groups was positively significant at the level of 0.01. Also the depression and anxiety levels were higher in females with neurotic disorders.Conclusion: Neuroticism is strongly associated with depressive and anxiety symptoms in the patients with neuroses. Also the results suggest that two tests tap an emotionality factor of stability-instability.

Keywords: neurosis, depression, anxiety, correlation.