do you consider anxiety to be a mentel disorder?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.