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Anxiety Due To A Physical Disorder Or A Substance - Anxiety Due To A Physical Disorder Or A Substance Symptom, Cause, Treatment
Anxiety Disorder Due to A General Medical Condition
- The patient has prominent anxiety, compulsions, obsessions or panic attacks.
- History, physical exam or laboratory findings suggest a general medical condition that seems likely to have directly caused these symptoms.
- No other mental disorder better accounts for these symptoms.*
- The symptoms cause important clinical distress or impair work, social or personal functioning.
- The symptoms don't occur solely during a delirium.
Depending on the dominant symptomatology, specify whether:
With Generalized Anxiety
With Panic Attacks
With Obsessive-Compulsive symptoms
Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder
- The patient has prominent anxiety, compulsions, obsessions or panic attacks
- History, physical exam or laboratory data substantiate that either
-These symptoms have developed within a month of Substance Intoxication or Withdrawal, or
-Medication use has caused the symptoms
- No other anxiety disorder better accounts for these symptoms.*
- The symptoms cause clinically important distress or impair work, social or personal functioning.
- The symptoms don't occur solely during a delirium.
Anxiety Due To A Physical Disorder Or A Substance Symptom, Cause, Treatment
*No other anxiety disorder must account for the symptoms better than does substance use. A variety of historical information could suggest that this is the case:
a. Anxiety disorder symptoms precede the onset of substance abuse.
b. There have been previous episodes of an anxiety disorder.
c. The symptoms are much worse than you would expect for the amount and duration of the substance abuse.
d. Anxiety disorder symptoms continue long (at least a month) after substance abuse or withdrawal stops.
The diagnosis of a Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder should be made only when the anxiety symptoms considerably exceed what you would expect from an ordinary case of Intoxication or Withdrawal from that specific substance.
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