In other anxiety disorders, the relative risks of suicidal ide- ation and suicide attempts also appear to be increased (118, 130). In addition, in patients with major depression, the presence of a comorbid anxiety disorder appears to in- crease the risk of suicidal ideation or suicide attempts (131,
132). Less clear, however, is whether anxiety disorders are associated with an increased risk for suicide and other sui- cidal behaviors in the absence of comorbid diagnoses (130, 132–136) or whether the observed increases in risk can be accounted for solely on the basis of comorbid disorders (127, 137). Nonetheless, suicide risk may be diminished by identifying masked anxiety symptoms and anxiety disor- ders that are misdiagnosed as medical illness as well as by explicitly assessing and treating comorbid psychiatric di- agnoses in individuals with anxiety disorders.