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Among anxiety disorders, the incidence of alexithymic features is found in a wide range of 12.5-58%, and it is a personality trait that can also be seen in healthy individuals. Our study investigated the relationship between alexithymic features and coping attitudes in patients with generalized anxiety disorder. Forty patients diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and 39 healthy volunteers participated in the study. Participants were divided into groups using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, and the Hamilton Anxiety Scale and Coping Attitudes Scale were applied to all participants. Nineteen patients with alexithymia and Generalized anxiety disorder, 21 patients with Generalized anxiety disorder without alexithymia, and 39 healthy volunteers participated in this study. Statistically significant differences were observed between the problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping subscale scores, but there was no difference in dysfunctional coping styles between the three groups. In the correlation analysis performed to determine the relationship between the total alexithymia and Coping attitudes subscale scores, there was a moderate negative correlation between the alexithymia scores and problem-focused (r=-0.442) and emotion-focused coping (r=-0.425) subscale scores. Alexithymia is often accompanied by generalized anxiety disorder and negatively affects coping attitudes.

Objective: The role of magnesium in the pathophysiology of depression has increased the interest in magnesium. However, contradictory results regarding whether the magnesium levels decrease in depression are reported in the literature. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to evaluate serum magnesium levels in patients diagnosed with depressive disorder who applied to the psychiatry outpatient clinic Materials and Methods: The data of 1013 patients who were diagnosed with depressive disorder and whose serum magnesium levels were measured were included in the study by retrospectively scanning the data of the patients who had applied to the Psychiatry outpatient clinic of Balıkesir University Faculty of Medicine between July 2020 and July 2022. Since the serum glucose, GGT and creatinine values were above their reference ranges in 183 of 1013 patients included in the study, the data of these patients were excluded from the analysis. Results: Serum magnesium values of 12.9% of female and 9.1% of male patients were below the reference values (1.9-2.7 mg/dl). Total mean ( ±SD) magnesium value was statistically significantly different from those of female and male patient groups ( 2.02±0.15 mg/dl vs 2.01±0.16 mg/dl and 2.04±0.15 mg/dl, and P