do you consider anxiety to be a mentel disorder?

anxiety is a familiar spirit we come across everyday. it has nothing to do with depression .you may just think too more.

I have anxiety or panic attacks. I don't take medication on a daily basis but I take a rx pill before I know I am going to be in a situation that I am going to need one, like when my husband drives.

Anxiety can't be grouped under mental disorder.
I feel the life style which we are living, we always get anxious or feel anxiety in almost every day life.
Its just when we expect lot more and try to achieve all things or works together and some time we fails to justify our work, so we feel very disturb and feel anxiety attach..
Its just normal, and same way it will help us to achieve our goals..
Depression is a mental state, like when we completely fail to achieve what we expect from us, or depression due to failure in relation,or due to not taking balanced diet.
Depression is due to many reason, but anxiety is first stage, where as depression is the last stage..

I think it is very possible to have "one without the other." Actually, they are on opposite ends of the spectrum to me. Anxiety is like all hyper emotions and too concerned about little things. While depression is not being able to pull up good emotions, or excitement itself. That's jsut what I think. Bi-polar from what I understand is fluctuating between the two extremes.

Anxiety is a feeling not a emotion. But don't tell the doctor or he will be shoving pills down your throat, for anything from having ADD to a Schizophrenic.Its sad how many people see doctors in hopes of getting real answers and true help, to be sent away with needless medication.

They are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. I have a lot of ANXIETY but i do NOT have DEPRESSION. Doctors are so quick to put us on antidepressants it isnt even funny my doctor had me on a couple of them and I was not depressed. Everyone get is a bad mood now and then it doesnt mean we are depressed for the long term. Half the people I know are on antidepressants and what the heck for? Because they cryed too much one week? Anxiety is just that nervousness, inablity to eat, sleep, stop shaking, heart pounding could be anything but anxiety and depression to me are NOT related. Im sure a lot of people will disagree with me, but thats what makes this a discussion right?

My brother surrers from anxiety as well as depression and he has done for the last ten years at least,he takes pill for this that he gets from a doctor as well as they are always checking the dosage.He has never had a panic attack in all the years he has had these problems,but that could be due to him being on medication.

I think that is possible to have anxiety without depression and depression without anxiety. My depressions started 11 years ago, but my anxiety started much earlier maybe 20 years ago. I also have a friend who has severe anxiey but no depressions. I think it is possible to have one without the other, but on the other hand there often is a connection and many people suffer from both things. My own experience is that my anxiety gets worse when my depressions gets worse, but I don't know why it happens. When my anxiety gets worse, it sometimes affects my depression, too. My anxiety prevents me from doing certain things, and the thought about the things that I can't do makes my depression worse.

i strongly believe it is possible to have one without the other, i am at the moment suffering with realy bad anxiety attacks so my doctor has given me anti depressants which i havent taken as i dont believe i am depressed at all, i have nothing to be depressed about and am very happy, so i believe they are two very seperate things

I have had panic attacks and I am not depressed in any way shape or form. It is just now when I am uncomfortable about something my body begins to react along with my fear. I don't like being in situations where I can't breath freely and I have only experienced panic attacks at the dentist, and inside of a mountain once, and the next time I went to go in to a mountain I began to panic again, probably because of fear of what had happened the last time. I have a panic attack maybe once a year twice at the most it has nothing to do with depression. It has to do with fears of specific things or events. That is not to say that someone who is depressed does not have panic attacks because they very well likely do, especially if their depression has something to do with fear. In a way it is mental because your brain is causing your body to react in an undesirable fashion when you have a panic attack. It is not a comfortable feeling and I have been able to mentally keep myself from going in to a panic attack when I feel one coming on. But it is a challenge. But no I don't think that panic attacks and depression are one in the same or even a symptom of one another although in some cases they can be, but not everyone who has anxiety is depressed.