Hi I am 27 years old person, have social anxiety and panic symptoms. When I consult a doctor's for this they have referring a depression medications. Is there any related to depression and social anxiety/panic symptoms? And most of the depression tablets consist sleeping symptoms, but don't have any sleeping trouble.

Dr. Rohit KothariPsychiatrist5yrs exp

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Hello, Panic disorder and social anxiety comes under anxiety spectrum. Both anxiety spectrum and depression have abnormality of neurotransmitters like serotonin. So many medication used are same, just the dosage, dosing and duration differs. Most of the antidepressant are activating agent and so prescribed in the morning and they do not cause sleep though some do cause sleep. If you are having sleep issues these medication can be adjusted to give you a sound sleep for adequate time.  

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