ANXIETY AND DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: A CLINICAL PSYCHIATRIC STUDY
Keywords:
anxiety-depressive disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, psychosomatics, emotional disorders.Abstract
Studies show that patients with rheumatic disease usually have the following anxiety-depressive spectrum disorders: depressive episodes (single and recurrent) of varying severity with concomitant anxiety; dysthymia (chronic depression of moderate severity); generalized anxiety disorder, as well as adjustment disorders with anxiety and depressive symptoms.
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