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Chronic mixed anxiety and depression

Chronic mixed anxiety and depression - F41.2 (Clinical term: Mixed anxiety and depressive disorder Eu41.2)

Many people in the community report significant levels of depression and/or anxiety that do not meet the diagnostic criteria for either depressive episode or the anxiety disorders. There are a variety of ways of classifying this group within ICD-10, including dysthymia, mixed anxiety and depression.

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