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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 16 Comorbid anxiety and depression diagnosis and treatment [Keywords:] anxiety disorders, depression, anxiety and depression Anxiety and depression are two common clinical symptoms in the current standard diagnostic classification of disease between the two units are independent, but in practice the two often exist in that comorbid anxiety and depression, which is that exist in patients with anxiety disorders and depression, and symptoms of the two groups when considered separately are in line with the appropriate diagnostic criteria. According to the National Comorbidity Survey showed 51.2% of patients with depression comorbid anxiety disorders [1], domestic investigation Data reported depression of anxiety symptoms accounted for 67.5%, in line with anxiety disorder diagnostic criteria of patients was 50% [2], depression and anxiety disorders were suffering the highest rate of [3]. Because anxiety and depression in the clinical manifestations often atypical , symptoms easily repeated, varied, different physicians, diagnostic consistency between the low and the difficulty of diagnosis and medical treatment increase, so it has become the focus of attention of the world one of the psychiatric community, it is gradually attracted the attention of domestic fellow [ 4]. The author on the subject are summarized below. The diagnosis of anxiety and depression issues Symptoms of anxiety and depression between the two groups have long unnoticed, as early as 1934, lewis proposed continuum between two groups of symptoms that anxiety symptoms as a whole or in part is a part of depression, anxiety were particularly vulnerable to disease and other disorders, is considered to be its basic features, more than 90% of lifetime anxiety disorders in patients suffering from other mental disorders, and comorbidity of anxiety within the lineage also common, some patients with several comorbid anxiety disorders often In 2002 in the Netherlands mental he