Cothymia: Double mood disorder 5 Summary: The syndrome of anxiety and depression is common and has a clinical importance that is not possessed by either diagnosis alone. It is argued that this condition deserves separate diagnostic description since the term ';comorbidity', the implication of separate concurrent disease, is not an appropriate term for two mood disorders that are so intimately associated. The clinical course and treatment implications of the combined condition, cothymia, are described. |