Department of Health Psychology, University of Sao Paulo, 374-Butanta, Sao Paulo- SP, 05508-220, Brazil
Research Article
Investigating the Linkage of Anxiety and Depression to the Feeling of Anguish
Author(s): Fernando Vieira*
Background: Conceptual confusions have been made on anguish, fear, panic and anxiety. Anguish focuses on present events and is accompanied by a feeling of tightness or pain in the thoracic region. We aimed to investigate the linkage of anxiety and depression to the feeling of anguish.
Method: Based on an exploratory method, we identified 100 patients aged between 17 and 77 years old, attended at the anxiety and affective disorders clinics, 50 with anguish and 50 without anguish.
Results: The investigation concluded that symptoms more associated with anguish are somatization, fear, depressive mood, gastrointestinal, neurovegetative and cardiovascular symptoms, that anguish is more associated with depression than anxiety and that between anguish and anxiety fear is the symptom more frequent, and between anguish and d.. View More»
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