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====<span id="depression">Differences between depression and fibromyalgia==== * Depression and anxiety are common in fibromyalgia but are not core diagnostic symptoms, so they are not required for a diagnosis of fibromyalgia in the ACR criteria<ref name="ACR1990" /><ref name="ACR2010" /> * A study of over 3,000 patients by Koroschetz et al. (2011) found that a significant number of people with fibromyalgia have never had depression.<ref name="Koroschetz2011-symptoms">{{Cite journal | last = Koroschetz | first = Jana | last2 = Rehm | first2 = Stefanie E. | last3 = Gockel | first3 = Ulrich | last4 = Brosz | first4 = Mathias | last5 = Freynhagen | first5 = Rainer | last6 = Tölle | first6 = Thomas R. | last7 = Baron | first7 = Ralf | date = 2011-05-25 | title = Fibromyalgia and neuropathic pain - differences and similarities. A comparison of 3057 patients with diabetic painful neuropathy and fibromyalgia| url = https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-11-55|journal=BMC Neurology|volume=11|issue=1 | pages = 55|doi=10.1186/1471-2377-11-55|issn=1471-2377|pmc=3125308|pmid=21612589}}</ref> * Fibromyalgia is a diagnosis of '''chronic widespread pain''', but pain is part of the diagnostic criteria for depression.<ref name="Muller2007">{{Cite journal | last = Müller | first = W. | last2 = Schneider | first2 = E.M. | last3 = Stratz | first3 = T. | date = 2007-09-01 | title = The classification of fibromyalgia syndrome | url =https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-007-0403-9|journal=Rheumatology International|language=en|volume=27|issue=11 | pages = 1005–1010|doi=10.1007/s00296-007-0403-9|issn=1437-160X}}</ref><ref name="webmd-notdepress">{{Cite web | url = https://www.webmd.com/depression/news/20031024/fibromyalgia-isnt-depression | title = Fibromyalgia Isn't Depression | last = DeNoon | first = Daniel J.|website=WebMD|language=en|access-date=2021-03-27}}</ref> * Jensen et al. (2010) found that [[anxiety]] and [[depression]] are not linked to increased pain sensitivity or alertered pain processing, which are key mechanisms in fibromyalgia.<ref name="Jensen2010" />
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