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Article: Young People With Social Anxiety Disorder At Risk For Depressive Disorders.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- March 26, 2001
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2001 MAR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia, during the teenage years or young adulthood is an important predictor of subsequent depressive disorders. Moreover, the presence of both social anxiety disorder and depressive disorder at an early age is associated with a more severe course and character of subsequent depressive illness.
This is according to an article in the March 2001 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. Murray B. Stein, MD, from the University of California, San Diego, and the Veterans Administration San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, California, and colleagues obtained data from a ...