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Anxiety Is a Symptom, Not a Diagnosis
- smt88 7y agoThis guy is a spine surgeon, so already take his comments with a grain of salt. The headline is like telling narcoleptics that sleepiness is a symptom, not a diagnosis. Both sleepiness and anxiety are useful. We evolved to have them. What people are diagnosing is inappropriate anxiety, or anxiety that's disproportionately high given the trigger. You can't always just eliminate the cause of the anxiety to fix it. OCD is an entire illness that's just inappropriate emotions, and the treatment isn't to change reality, it's to teach the sufferer to be OK with those emotions.