Alcoholism, Anxiety Disorders, and Agoraphobia

Abstract
A group of 48 inpatient alcoholics were studied using the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Life-time Version (SADS-L) and the Brief Standard Self-rating for Phobic Patients. Of the patients, .apprx. 1/4 were diagnosed as suffering from agoraphobia and social and mixed phobias, .apprx. 44% were diagnosed as suffering from anxiety disorders, and 46% had suffered from an episode of major depression. Data from the self-rating questionnaire were consistent with the diagnostic data. The alcoholics with phobias had experienced more severe dysphoric feelings than nonphobic alcoholics with other psychiatric disorders.

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