In the field of psychology and psychiatry, there are already many types of emotional and neurotic disorders.
However, when people feel anxious and depressed as the same time, they are experiencing symptoms of mixed anxiety depressive disorder or MADD.
Thus, the patients share the symptoms of pure anxiety and of pure depression.
The depressed people show symptoms like pessimism, low mood, and exhaustion while the anxious individuals are prone to rigidity, bad temper and irritability.
With a person who has MADD, he feels the symptoms of being depressed and anxious at the same time.
This type of disorder is common to many people although the debate of making this type of disorder as another form of diagnosis has not been settled yet.
For those who want to keep the two separated, they think that it is because anxiety and depression may exist simultaneously but they are actually two different states so putting them as one would not be helpful.
Also, the combination would just make the classification system of psychiatric disorders more complicated.
On the side of those who want to make the two adjoined, forming another type of disorder would be helpful in the treatment and of finding the right cure for both depression and anxiety.
The medications that are needed to cure MADD are antidepressants that have anti-anxiety capabilities.
This will neutralize both the anxiety of the patient and the depression that he feels.
Feeling worried and depressed would affect the way that a person moves and goes on with his life.
Thus, an individual must seek medication instantly so that curing for the disorder would not further affect him.