Instructions
Both depression and anxiety are called internalizing disorders.
Why is that?
How are they different and how are they alike?
Can they co-exist?
Support your arguments with at least one article from a scholarly journal and
respond to at least two of your classmates.
Answer
Depression and anxiety are internalizing disorders that are characterized by a high level of distress. Due to their similarities, depression, and anxiety has many of their symptoms overlapping. Notably, internalizing disorders are emotional and behavioral disorders where the symptoms are largely internal to the individual. In that regard, the affected person will experience the symptoms and likely keep them inside. A person with internalizing disorders will exhibit behaviors ranging from irritability, withdrawal, loneliness, sadness, feeling unloved and unwanted, having concentration problems, eating more or lesser than usual, and being nervous (Carvalho & McIntyre, 2017). Internalizing disorders affect the inward as opposed to the outward, thus, it may be difficult to detect a person with internalizing disorders unless they express it …. To access full answer, use the purchase button below.