Anxiety
Anxiety is a mental health disorder that is associated with excess fear and worry and interferes with daily life activities for six months or greater. Diagnostic symptoms according to DSM-5 must include three of the following: restlessness, sleep disturbances, fatigue, impaired concentration, irritability and muscle tension, without attribution to another cause.1
“Anxiety disorders are two to five times more prevalent in patients with migraine than in the general population, up to two times more common in patients with migraine than in patients with depression, and much more common in patients with CM than in patients with EM.”2