Introduction: Remission of Anxiety-Related Disorders

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For several years, the relative degree of response to treatment of depressive disorders has been the focus of intense discussion.^1-3 For example, a consensus group convened nearly a decade ago to develop definitions for terms such as treatment response and remission, as well as relapse and recurrence of illness.⁴ The development of such concepts has allowed the field to focus on the important notion of achieving and maintaining full symptomatic (i.e., "syndromal") response in depression.