Stanford University researchers have identified 5 categories of anxiety and depression that cut across the current diagnoses, and aim to provide more effective treatment for millions of people who suffer with these issues.  Sometimes people with these difficulties, as well as the professionals who diagnose and treat these problems, have a hard time identifying the difficulty with which they’re dealing. The identified categories are:

1 Tension – Defined by irritability, these people are overly sensitive, touchy, hypersensitive and overwhelmed…

2 Anxious Arousal – Cognitive functioning (controlling thoughts, concentration…) is impaired.  Symptoms include sweating, racing heart, feeling stressed, feeling like losing one’s mind, can’t remember moment to moment…

3 Melancholia – Problems with social functioning, restricting social interactions, isolation, down mood…

4 Anhedonia – Inability to feel pleasure. Able to function fairly well, but often feel numb, down and distressed…

5 General Anxiety – Generalized anxiety with worrying and physical stress, without specific focus of the anxiety.

http://neurosciencenews.com/anxiety-depression-types-8138/