Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

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In this final part we explore the relationship between anxiety and depression. The course will help you to consider some key issues around diagnosis, causes and interventions for anxiety and depression, and to think critically about some of the more pressing contemporary questions and controversies. For example: Do anxiety and depression lie along a ‘continuum’ of human emotions? Do culture and societal views matter? Are anxiety and depression simply caused by the stresses and strains of daily living and by life’s events and traumas, and not by genes? How much of mental illness can the biology of the brain explain? Are anxiety and depression more common in women or in men? Can or should anxiety and depression be ‘cured’? Could psychedelics be used to treat anxiety and depression?