Changing how you think about things results in a decrease or elimination of anxiety symptoms. Cognitive therapy combined with anxiety reduction techniques are very successful in reducing anxiety. Anxiety Often Accompanies Depression Anxiety commonly goes along with depression. About 50 to 70 percent of women who have depression, also have anxiety. Anxiety is present long before symptoms of depression occur.
Some people have only one episode of depression.
Most often, depression occurs over and over again, especially for women. Most women first experience depression in their twenties. When depression first starts, it usually occurs after a difficult stressor. With each episode, however, it takes less to cause depression. After many episodes, it becomes difficult to tell if any stress was present when the episode began.