My doc says its very common to have anxiety and depression together
and its often difficult to tell which came first.
Im sure its possible to have multiple anxiety disorders also .Like GAD with agoraphobia for example.

I have anxiety along with PTSD and Schizoaffective Disorder. Often anxiety is co-occurring with other disorders, often because of the stress of having those disorders.

I too hate it when they play the mental illness card when there is a crime or a mass shooting. there are a lot of mentally ill people living among us in society, and they are not all criminals. A vast minority of them are mass shooters, for example. I too hate that shit.

I have to remind myself that the news media only reports what is allowed to be shared publicly.

Often, people are not diagnosed until AFTER something serious affects others, and it becomes common knowledge that anxiety, depression, and other conditions were not treated.

Anxiety is natural.

Best wishes in finding your place of calm.

I believe that many people do have a mental illness of some kind, it only makes sense, nobody is perfect, we have flaws. It's about how badly they effect us and how we deal with them and the support that we have to deal with them. I suffer from depression, social anxiety, and physical ailments as well, some things just mix together, one problem can help cause another, and so on and so forth. It all piles up to become a huge issue unfortunately.

I'm sorry...who is "they" and what is the question? The headline makes no sense.

I have anxiety (my mother's nervous system) but have learned to handle it, get UNDER and THROUGH it, with exercise, bicycling and pushing weight in the gym.

I've also been diagnosed by a psychologist depressed.

Lots of people with mental illness have anxiety issues. But that does not mean that lots of people with anxiety have mental illness.

There is also a big difference between a mental illness and a mental disorder as well. I have anxiety and OCD but I don't think for a second that my brain is "ill". My brain is awesome. But my personality contributes to some pretty bad thinking patterns that have created my disorder. My disorder is correctable and will improve as much as I myself improve my thought patterns and attitudes. I can't speak for the girl in the car the other day, but these shooters, I think clearly have a problem that extends beyond some bad thinking patterns. You can see in their eyes that their is some illness there and I don't think any amount of cognitive therapy or positive thinking would change that.

Just my thoughts. :)